Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grand jury in Chicago ended months of deliberation with a balancing act that is certain to ignite fresh controversy. The jury indicted eight demonstrators and eight Chicago policemen for their part in the disorders. The demonstrators were the first to be charged under the 1968 antiriot section of the Civil Rights Act for conspiring and crossing state lines to in cite riot. Among those subject to as much as ten years in prison and $20,000 in fines, if convicted, are such movement luminaries as David Dellinger, Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden, Yippie Leaders Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, Black...
...indictment accused the eight of intent to promote riot and "to teach and demonstrate to other persons the use, application and making of incendiary devices for use in civil disorders...
...violence in return for the privilege of forming a political party that would exert power in South Viet Nam like any other party, to the extent that it wins votes. This arrangement is now discussed as the "Greek solution," since the N.L.F., like the Greek Communist Party following the civil war in 1950, would have to change its name in order to comply with the South Vietnamese constitution. Thieu has spoken derisively of such a proposal, though he has not actually ruled it out. Indeed, there is little doubt that, in one form or another, he must some day accept...
...business of running the government, Thieu has also had to start with the most basic object?survival. Among the top aims of the 1968 Tet offensive, after all, was the overthrow of the U.S. "puppet" government in Saigon. The Communists made no headway whatever in provoking civil disorder, and that aim was notably absent in the current offensive. But because of that presumed vulnerability, Thieu has spent more than a little effort in simply assuring the nation that he is alive and well in Saigon...
...decade's prohibition of strikes; on one day last week, 2,500,000 employees walked off their jobs. Some invoked gherao, a tactic borrowed from India in which workers barricade employers in their offices until wage demands are met. Since the government had set the pace by awarding civil servants an $80 million pay raise, it might be some time before the labor unrest could be quelled...