Word: antiwar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ominous Preview. The largest gains were made by the militantly antigovernment, antiwar An Quang Buddhists, whose street riots back in 1963 were a major factor in the downfall of Diem. The Buddhists, who were strong in the northern provinces, emerged from the election with 31 seats, the second biggest bloc in the House, though by no means a united one. The opposition counted 58 members in all, more than the total of Thieu's known supporters. A more ominous preview of the sort of opposition that could be mounted in the absence of a genuine presidential election came last...
Illegal Policies. Bundy's selection for the coveted editorship was greeted with dismay by some members of the council, chiefly antiwar academics who believed that his part in America's most disastrous foreign adventure made him a poor choice for the editorship. Led by Richard Falk, professor of international law and practice at Princeton, the dissidents lodged a protest with David Rockefeller, chairman of the council board. Said Falk: "Mr. Bundy's role in planning and executing illegal and criminal war policies in Indochina should disqualify him, at least for a period of years, from holding...
Painstaking Precautions. The Camden raid was carried off with such devastating precision that one defense attorney termed it "not an arrest, but an ambush." Coupled with the arrest of five alleged conspirators in Buffalo, N.Y., it may have broken the spine of the Berrigan-centered segment of the antiwar movement. The Berrigan brothers themselves are in federal prisons awaiting an October trial in Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of conspiring to blow up federal buildings and kidnap Henry Kissinger...
...nothing disheveled about Grady's anti-Government operations. He watched a Government office or building for months before he sent his crew into action. He charted the flow of traffic and the movements of guards or watchmen around his target. He has used as many as 50 antiwar activists on a single job. He schooled them in techniques of lock picking and window smashing. Only when he was convinced by his notes, charts and diagrams that nothing had been left to chance did Grady give the word to break and enter...
...Holly wood's most prominent scenarists (Exodus, Hawaii), Trumbo has always had a tendency to bear down so heavily that he often blunts the points he is la boring so hard to drive home. He does so again in Johnny, which he adapted from his own 1939 antiwar novel...