Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE DAYS OF TET HAPPINESS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF YOUR GOVERNMENT'S SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD read a banner strung across Saigon's Cong Ly Boulevard last week. All over the city, red flags-intended to summon good luck, not Communism -fluttered from balconies. Saigon's citizens celebrated with dragon parades, or gathered at pagodas to pray for financial success, domestic tranquillity and a peaceful new year. In the Chinese section of Cholon, which was badly bloodied during the Communist Tet attacks four years ago, the banners bravely promised that WHAT
THANK GOD! exulted the banner headline on the London Sun. It was, in a way, an expression of the nation's collective relief. The massive march by Catholic civil rights protesters through the border town of Newry had been peaceful, with no repetition of Londonderry's Bloody Sunday, which saw 13 people killed by British army bullets. Later in the week, Ulster remained relatively calm during a "day of disruption" called by Catholics to mark the first six months of the government's policy of internment. Brief though it might turn out to be, the respite from...
...past year, though, the Christian Democrats have suddenly found their right flank exposed. In last June's local elections, the Neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano made substantial gains by preaching the need for more law-and-order. Now the M.S.I, is trying to rally Catholics to its banner on a referendum against a controversial divorce law that Parliament passed in 1970. In order to keep the vote of Italy's conservative Catholics, the Christian Democrats cannot openly oppose the referendum-but a waffling stance threatens their alliance with the Socialists, who are adamantly opposed to repeal...
...either passionate enthusiasm or cold rage. Says Poet Stanley Kunitz: "To reach out to so large an audience has an element of adventure. Extravaganzas relieve the tedium of an age." Poet Allen Ginsberg was inspired to dithyrambics: "He is trying his best to unify Russian-American Soul under the banner of poesy; in heaven, great golden thrones of credit are given for good intentions." In Pittsburgh last week, Yevtushenko's dirge for Allison Krause, one of the victims of the Kent State tragedy ("Give no flowers to a state that outlaws truth"), was fervently applauded by an audience that...
...into the roving life of the Honda-riding toughs known as "cowboys." The result has been a resurgence of the kind of gang crime last seen in the ragged days of the Diem regime. In Hue last month, one exasperated army commander assembled his troops and police near a banner proclaiming that "vagrants, thieves and burglars are the nemesis of society." His crackdown orders included an instruction that every cowboy arrested be given a haircut...