Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine recruiter revisited the campus May 2. Although the leadership of a university sought "an alternative to...police intervention," B.U.'s administration, in anticipation of trouble, asked for tactical police in full riot gear to await the demonstrators...
...rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...
...police, and Senator Alan Cranston told TIME: "AID is continuing to bolster a cruel and repressive police apparatus in South Viet Nam. A vast surveillance system is in effect, aided by U.S. communications equipment and personnel. Police torture and inhuman jail conditions, including the notorious tiger cages, await those who criticize the government's policies. That the American taxpayer should subsidize torture is an outrage...
...dramatize his defiance of the court, Aquino dismissed his civilian attorneys, asserting: "I will not participate in these proceedings. I am requesting to be taken back to my cell to await your verdict." Last week a verdict of sorts was rendered-not by the befuddled judges, who had temporarily adjourned the trial to rethink their tactics, but by Marcos himself. Evidently unprepared for the fierceness of Aquino's rhetoric or the effectiveness of his unorthodox defense, the President dissolved the military court and called for a five-man committee to "determine whether really there is a reasonable ground...
...France was away on its relentless August holiday. Even so, 5,000 people demonstrated outside the Lip plant after the raid, and 20 were injured. Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand and others were determined to make political capital out of L'Affaire Lip, even if they had to await la rentrée, Frenchmen's mass return from vacation. On any brand of watch, it was a tense time in France...