Word: bayonets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANCISCO--Gov. Ronald Reagan said last night that San Francisco State College should be kept open "at the point of bayonet if necessary...
...year-old woman was bayoneted in the back; a 13-year-old boy died with a bayonet wound in the head. Others were shot at such close range that hospital attendants found powder burns on their clothes. As some in the crowd fled in panic and others dived to the ground, student snipers opened fire on the troops from surrounding apartments. For ten minutes, massive gun fire reverberated through the plaza, and sporadic gunfire continued for another hour. Italian Authoress Oriana Fallaci, on assignment for L'Europeo magazine, was shot in the back and leg; two men standing beside...
...national Republican ticket," he told a Little Rock, Ark., audience, "you have thrown your vote away." In 1952, he reminded them, Republicans said "pretty things" to the South, but then appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court. "The national Republican Party, for the first time since Reconstruction, put the bayonet in the backs of the people of Arkansas." Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, he added, was an attempt to "con" the South into repeating the mistake...
...Chinese invaded India through the passes in 1962, the border has been comparatively quiet. The most recent major firefight occurred last September. At such strategic spots as the 14,140-ft. Natu Pass, linking the Indian protectorate of Sikkim to Chinese-held Tibet, the two sides are literally at bayonet point, patrolling within sight and sound of each other on opposite sides of a single strand of wire. Asian-style politesse prevails in the low-key propaganda war at Natu Pass. Indian loudspeakers kick off daily with news and propaganda in Mandarin Chinese at 5:30 a.m. The Chinese speakers...
...other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...