Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperate food shortages, a stagnant economy and growing unrest, the Jana Sangh sharply attacked Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's socialist-minded Congress Party. It demanded better economic planning, free enterprise to attract foreign investment, a harder line against Pakistan and China, and the development of a nuclear bomb for India. Growing steadily, it won control of the city of Delhi and domination of the opposition coalitions in the two key states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In last year's national parliamentary elections, the Jana Sangh rolled up 14 million votes-second only to the ruling Congress...
...others accused of conspiring to kill three civil rights workers in 1964. Bowers and six co-defendants were convicted, but Buckley filed an appeal that has kept them all out of jail. Next on his agenda was the defense of Bowers -and another gang of Klansmen-in the fire-bomb murder of Vernon Dahmer, a Hattiesburg, Miss., N.A.A.C.P. official. As always, Buckley was outwardly confident...
...last week Buckley's ever-present smile slid from his face. He was in jail, convicted of having helped to kidnap a witness in an effort to create an alibi for Defendant Bowers in the fire-bomb case...
...Mike Mansfield urging the U.S. to confess that the Pueblo was in North Korean waters if the admission would bring about the release of the crew. Not long ago, the Union Leader happily featured a Manchester gravestone dealer who had placed a sign in his showroom window: "Save every bomb for Russia." No use wasting good bombs on North Viet Nam, this man-in-the-street told a reporter. "We must deal directly with our enemy...
...become a symbol. It was equally arbitrary to make of the Bastille the symbol of absolutism (there were worse places and institutions) and it was equally arbitrary for public opinion to single out nuclear weapons as a target of moral outrage when ordinary bombs had killed many more people in Dresden than the atomic bomb killed at Hiroshima. The choice of a symbol happens to be a fact, and I am not even sure that we should deplore...