Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What was happening here five years or so ago seems to have been an attempt to deal with that despair by embracing and working toward an alternative vision of how things could be. That vision fell apart, and we live now in its ruins. The strike and its aftermath have certainly not left us with the notion of an alternative, one that answers the political and personal problems that the prevailing system cannot; what it does seem to have left, unfortunately, is the idea that without an alternative an attitude of reconciliation and resignation is all that is left...
...Aftermath...
...that he was coerced into pleading guilty by his lawyer at the time, Percy Foreman. An expensive and flamboyant attorney, Foreman believed that the case against his client was so strong that only a guilty plea could save him from execution. Moreover, Foreman argued, a Southern jury, in the aftermath of national revulsion over the John and Robert Kennedy assassinations, would want to show that the South did not tolerate such acts. Nevertheless, one state witness, who claimed to have seen Ray leaving the rooming house after the shooting, seemed unreliable. The bullet that hit King was too fragmented...
...immediate aftermath of the La Guardia bombing, many airports took their own emergency measures. Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco temporarily closed down most or all of their locker areas. At Washington National Airport, a bomb threat came within hours after the La Guardia explosion, and guards used specially trained dogs to sniff out potential explosive devices. Virtually every major airport expanded its security forces; in the case of one airline, the increase was as much...
...Board of Trustees of Bennington College will hold a special meeting this morning to consider its course of action in the aftermath of two separate votes of "no confidence" in President Gail Parker '64 taken by the college's faculty and students last week...