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When Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara came to campus in the fall of 1966 to gave a short talk in Quincy House, Lithgow watched as hundreds of students mobbed the secretary as he tried to leave, forcing him to exit though underground tunnels...
...Vietnam War escalated, Students for aDemocratic Society confronted Defense SecretaryRobert S. McNamara outside Quincy House anddemanded that he account for civilian casualties.McNamara finally escaped the mob by ducking intothe University's underground tunnels. Nearly 2700undergraduates signed a letter of apology toMcNamara, but they seemed to disapprove only ofSDS's manners, not its opposition to the war. Thefirst major national anti-war rally in New Yorkdrew dozens of buses from Cambridge...
...million Kosovo Albanians have so far remained relatively quiet. That is no doubt because the Milosevic regime has installed in their midst an enormous military and police apparatus and imposed a state of emergency. But below the surface, resistance has been building. In defiance of the Serbian government, the underground Albanian leadership plans to hold clandestine parliamentary elections for the phantom republic this week...
...WHAT AMOUNTS TO AN OBSCENE GESTURE TO THE rest of the world, China exploded a nuclear warhead with a yield of 1 million tons of tnt at its underground test range in far northwestern Xinjiang province. It was the largest such blast the Chinese have ever detonated and far bigger than the 150-kiloton testing limit the U.S. and the former Soviet Union have been observing under a 1974 agreement...
...very strange. There were Brian Keenan, John McCarthy, Frank Reed, Tom Sutherland and I, all in the Bekaa Valley in one underground secret prison, all of us being held under different names. We would laugh about it, wondering which hat they were wearing when they came in to talk to us. Was he going to wear the Islamic Jihad hat and talk to Tom ((Sutherland)) and me? Or was he going to wear the Islamic Dawn hat and talk to Frank Reed...