Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upcoming municipal elections should help to prevent violence in some cities, particularly where blacks hold or seek high office. Newark Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city...
...prepared to "meet force with overwhelming force." Los Angeles police have seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
...North Vietnamese. Honeycutt, a hard-nosed commander who often walks the point (the exposed forward position in a formation) with his battalion, did not give up. On May 14 the battalion, trying again, nearly made the top of the hill. But while Honeycutt, whose radio code name is "Black Jack," radioed, "Get up off your butts, get moving," the commander of the lead company was wounded and the attack petered...
...that mattered little on Hill 937. When the battle was over-while helicopters flew out stacks of holed American helmets and bloody flak jackets-TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm found a piece of cardboard and a black 101st neckerchief pinned by a G.I. knife to a blackened tree trunk. "Hamburger Hill," a soldier had scrawled on the cardboard, and someone else had added the words, "Was it worth...
...bring World War II to an end. Anai's Georget and Blanche Cardon have long since died, but the memories and memorials of that day in 1944 have not. On the beaches, in the cliffs and dunes and marshes beyond them, linger the grim reminders-rusted guns, brownish-black pillboxes, and endless rows of crosses. TIME Correspondent Benjamin Cate toured the battle areas, talked with the French who still live where so much blood was spilled, and last week sent this report...