Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspicion About Mediation. Stepping into the muggy heat at Ikeja airport, Wilson avoided suggestions that he had come to mediate. One reason was his awareness of a persistent local suspicion that he had come to pressure the federal military government to make concessions to the Biafrans. Major General Yakubu Gowon...
In general, the weaker a regime is politically, the tougher it seems to be on its Jews. They serve as convenient scapegoats; henceforth, they may also serve as hostages in dealings with Israel. Egypt, Syria and Iraq have refused all appeals to free their captive Jews, perhaps fearing that a...
But behind the optimism there was concern. "Our relief," said Oanh, "is mixed with worries about what will happen to us in the future." There was the inevitable fear that a bombing halt might lead to a rapid pullout of U.S. troops, followed by capitulation to the foe. Some of...
But the Committee on Houses wasn't interested--at least not in immediate capitulation. Dean Ford announced the news with a rare verbal gaffe, commenting that he and the Committee were "tired of the issue." Dining hall politicoes were grumbling, "they jolly well better not be tired of the issue...
Moving on to Boston University, King gained a doctorate and a bride, Antioch College Graduate Coretta Scott, and in 1954 took his first pastorate in Montgomery, Ala. There in 1955, a seamstress' tired feet precipitated the first great civil rights test of power and launched King's galvanic...