Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Still, I chose to stay around for a while and lend support. I heard a couple of speeches and a smattering of applause, but no real commitment from the crowd. Even the hawkish pro-intervention demonstrators in the background seemed to lack real conviction...
...Society lost faith that there were solutions," says Paul Grogan, president of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a source of funds and faith for grass-roots rescue efforts. A poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion shows that 75% of Americans believe the homeless problem will worsen or remain the same. The irony is that the loss of hope has occurred just when hope may be at hand. In city after city, advocates of the homeless can point to programs and policies that are tailor-made, cost effective, time tested. Now if adequate funds are provided, they will know...
During the Vietnam era the world community was just as clear in its condemnation of U.S. policy as it has been in support of it today. Certainly the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam under Richard M. Nixon was at least in part motivated by serious concerns that foreign opposition to the war was deteriorating America's ability to conduct foreign affairs. Today, even Arab nations have joined the international force in Saudi Arabia...
Vietnam changed the way Americans view the Presidency and foreign policy. Support for Lyndon B. Johnson's bombing in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident was widespread, despite doubts about the incident's veracity. Today, the media's former trust has been replaced with cynicism...
Anti-war activists have been protesting all fall, and this Thursday, Students Against War in the Middle East (SAWME) coordinated a rally and vigil in the Yard. Although none of the fall's protests have enjoyed overwhelming support, a series of informal interviews conducted yesterday suggest that the anti-war movement may have more support than the protests reveal...