Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish vote, the city's biggest single ethnic bloc, was crucial to his cause. Four years ago, the traditionally Democratic Jews helped elect Lindsay. Now many of them were still enraged over Lindsay's dispute last year with the predominantly Jewish teachers' union.* That acid conflict also lent credence to the allegation that he cared nothing for Marchi's "forgotten New Yorker" and Procaccino's "average...
...that the President was generally close to the mark, though optimistic. If the military in Saigon had any reservation about the speech, it concerned the favorable statistics that Nixon cited-which could be reversed in a painfully short time if the Communists once more decided to intensify the conflict...
...once massive majority fell to a bare 24 seats. Fearful that her party would suffer further losses in the 1972 elections, Mrs. Gandhi began trying to attract more voters by nationalizing the banks and promising to accelerate India's pace toward socialism. Her plan brought her into direct conflict with the party's conservative kingmakers, known collectively as the Syndicate, who put her into power four years...
Though he has made a limited concession on the permit question, the aura of manufactured crisis still hangs over the demonstrations. Having created the possibility of conflict, the Administration began marshalling a virtual army of police. national guard and regular troops (28,000 from the Washington area. with unspecified numbers on call from beyond a 100-mile radius) to protect the city from a mythical siege. As the government poured out its information about the "violent groups" coming to Washington, it kept the nation abundantly informed of the rising numbers of troops it is holding in the wings...
...should end up with their middle-class values intact. The only possibility Tucker and Maszurky give Ted and Alice to consider is Southern California's Rolls-Royce variety of bohemia. And for that reason, the movie is a cop-out; the supposed Bob and Carol versus Ted and Alice conflict does not exist as Bob and Carol are paper tigers; it is all, so to speak, philosophically shitty...