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To the Editor: In Support of the BDS Editorial
I was president of The Crimson in 1973, nearly 50 years ago. I agree entirely with your superb editorial endorsing the nonviolent Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign, designed to promote justice in Israel/Palestine.
Elizabeth Butterfield (1913 - 1978)
S OME YEARS AGO, a Harvard undergraduate forgot to turn in his study card on time. Sometime in late March,
Answers
1.) The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 2.) On December 23, 1950, when the U.S. signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement
Santiago Diary
H OW CAN I EXPLAIN the horror of Chile? Chile today is an old woman picking through the garbage in
A Parting Shot
A NTI-PERSONNEL bombs were manufactured in the small towns that dot the rolling dairy country of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Teen-age
They Left Their Plows Behind Them
O NE YEAR AGO tomorrow American B-52 bombers lumbered out of their hangars at air bases in Thailand, rolled down
New Times: Journalists in Bars
A HYPOTHETICAL situation: a pivotal Midwestern district in the United Steelworkers Union is holding an election for the district presidency.
News From a Socialist America
I MAGINE that a socialist government has just come to power in the United States. Although people are still celebrating
Who Will Be the Philosophers?
A GROUP of U.S. antiwar activists visiting North Vietnam earlier this year were asked by their hosts about the strange
Lesley Evades Everything
T HE CENTRAL character in Mark Kelman's first novel is a thoroughly disgusting person, a haughty 21-year-old woman who serenly
Chile: The Dilemma of Revolutionary Violence
P ORTUGAL, a poor European country, for the past decade has been bombing and shooting liberation forces in three of
It's Not Over in Chile
M UCH NONSENSE has been written in the American press about Salvador Allende and the Chilean revolution. The picture the
The State of the American Press
T HE AMERICAN press has praised itself a great deal in recent months. It has claimed credit for bringing to
Twenty World Enemies
M URRAY, THE ICONOCLASTIC HERO of A Thousand Clowns, delivers a soliliquy near the end of the film complaining about
Robert F. Kennedy '48
T HE miserable homes of workers in Imperial Germany typically had one feature in common--a portrait of August Bebel, the
