Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statue, demonstrated to his colleagues that it would be a simple matter to break the lock on a door leading from the statue's head (where a million tourists annually stare out at the harbor through windows in the crown) into the 42-ft.-long torch-bearing arm, from which the public is excluded. At the statue's shoulder, Bowe reported, the Black Liberation boys could plant a few sticks of dynamite, detonate them with electrical blasting caps, and-bang!-in one blast the "damned old bitch" would be rendered both headless and torchless...
...briefs aimed at social changes-from trustbusting to school desegregation. Since the N.A.A.C.P. began leading the way in 1909, more and more minority groups have also found in court a chance for expression that eludes them at the ballot box. In 1945, the American Jewish Congress started a legal arm that has since filed scores of amicus briefs not only concerned with Jewish causes but also with the rights of Catholics, Negroes and Puerto Ricans. No amicus quite matches the 44-year-old American Civil Liberties Union, which, under Executive Director John Pemberton Jr., churns out briefs for people...
Honduras held elections last week for the first time in seven years, ostensibly to choose a constituent assembly to write a new constitution for the country. In reality it was to legalize the strong-arm rule of Colonel Osvaldo López, 44, the ambitious air force officer who ousted President Ramón Villeda Morales in October...
...warship is an aged cruiser, now anchored in Shanghai Harbor as a training ship. In numbers of planes-2,900-Red China boasts the world's third largest air force, but it would not last long in combat, since the planes are largely Russian castoffs, and the air arm is handicapped by shortages of fuel and spare parts. As for nuclear potential, the Communists exploded a crude device last fall, and may be ready to try another test blast. But a sophisticated weapon-and the means of delivering it-is years away...
...British government has always kept the TV commercial at arm's length, as if it were a particularly odorous fish. The state-owned British Broadcasting Corp. will have nothing to do with it at all. On Britain's single commercial TV network, the government allows no sponsored programs, confines commercials generally to short intervals between programs and carefully regulates their length and tone. Last week the Labor government took regulation a step farther. As part of the government's vigorous antismoking campaign it ordered a strict ban on all cigarette advertising on the telly, which cigarette companies...