Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fill the news void, local television stations increased their coverage. But it was far too episodic and fragmented to be effective. When a clash between police and Negroes occurred last May, television recorded the mob scene without adequately explaining it. Important public matters, such as the appointment of a new police commissioner who might be able to ease racial tension, were not properly aired...
...biggest clash was at the edge of the walled city of Jerusalem between helmeted police and a procession of mourners on their way to a Moslem cemetery. The police were stoned when they tried to limit the number of Arabs entering the Damascus Gate and responded with a charge. The Israelis also fired their weapons in the air to frighten away Arab demonstrators heading in the direction of the Wailing Wall, where they might have collided with praying Jews...
South Viet Nam's 1967 constitution endows the office of Premier with wide responsibilities-and potential power-in the day-to-day administration of the country on behalf of the President. In the constant clash-and-compromise bargaining between South Viet Nam's two top men, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky persuaded President Nguyen Van Thieu to accept as the country's first Premier a Saigon lawyer and Ky confederate with no political experience, Nguyen Van Loc. Ever since Tet, Saigon has rumbled with rumors that Thieu was going to replace Loc, who had proved a less...
Cooling Tempers. Initial reaction to the police raid was an emotional tide of sympathy for the protesters. There were numerous student rallies on campus, one of which led to a brief but violent clash with police that contributed eleven more injuries to the week's total. Both the Spectator and the moderate student government called for resignations of Kirk and Provost David Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which...
Meanwhile, more violence erupted between police and students. Three students suffered head lacerations after a clash with police inside the university gates. Thirty police and an equal number of students were involved in the melee, according to the Associated Press...