Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Need for Calm. First to go was Guinea's flamboyant Sékou Touré. Infinitely more distressing to No. 10 Downing Street was the break made by Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, a Commonwealth member and a moderate. Genuinely reluctant, Nyerere acted on what he obviously considered to be a moral question, made it clear that he hoped to remain in the Commonwealth and even resume relations with Britain if Rhodesia's rebellion was put down. But for the moment, he was breaking with Britain. So were Ghana, Mali, Egypt and the Sudan; there were signs that...
Nevertheless, the Administration has been caught in angry crossfire between warring city factions, and Poverty Czar Shriver is under pressure from President Johnson to calm the storm. Two weeks ago, Shriver killed a controversial research project that OEO had financed at Syracuse University. The program, aimed at encouraging the poor to promote their own interests more vigorously, was canceled after federal funds were used 1) to transport mobs to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his re-election campaign, and 2) to bail demonstrators out of jail. Declared Walsh: "This program from its inception has tried to promote class warfare...
Because doctors were anxious to preserve absolute calm around their patient, Ike's railroad arrival was accomplished under maximum security. Troops with fixed bayonets were stationed at 20-yard intervals along the length of the train to keep spectators away as he was carried to an ambulance. Outside the station a helicopter, heavily insulated against the roar of its rotors, picked up the former President and in eleven minutes deposited him at the hospital twelve miles away. When he got to Walter Reed, Ike said he was "feeling fine," later in the week had a Thanksgiving dinner with...
District police found the tone of the demonstration far more satisfactory than others they have confronted. Police officials praised the marchers calm behavior and the demonstration monitors' control of the crowd...
Since the country appeared completely calm, censorship seemed hardly necessary, but Smith did not stop there. To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...