Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy dispatched advisors to Vietnam, adopting the recommendations of General Maxwell Taylor and Stanford economist Eugene Staley. U. S. advisors would arm the South Vietnamese army and help them with three objectives...
...lots of cops on my walk, but most of them were policemen and didn't seem sickened by me, my black arm band, my buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...
...nine-member Faculty committee, chaired by Economics professor Henry Rosovsky was commissioned to investigate establishing some form of Black Studies program at the University. The Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students, the negotiating arm of AAAAS, worked closely with the Faculty group during the rest of the spring and the following fall. In January of 1969, after eight months of exhaustive research, the Rosevsky Committee issued its long-awaited report...
...Guard was conceived as an arm of the army. They are trained in battlefield combat, and only partially in keeping order in the streets. Their instruction comes from men who are biased against the young and the black, who are the citizens and the enemy that they will face in the streets. Their bias encourages overreaction in riot situations. And they, unlike the police who they play backstop for, are armed with weapons that make overreaction a fatal...
...dashing as his style of command. In addition to his trademark camouflage jungle suit, Tri's combat regalia usually include a black three-starred baseball cap, a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 in a shoulder holster, a leather-covered briar pipe, and a swagger stick carried under the arm. "I use it to spank the Viet Cong," Tri says with a wide grin...