Word: disarms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though some right-wingers condemn gun controls as a Communist plot to disarm Americans, a more common objection is that individual Americans have "a constitutional right to bear arms." Actually, no such absolute right exists. The Supreme Court has held consistently that the right is a collective one. State militias are quite clearly what the Founding Fathers had in mind in drafting the Second Amendment: "A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...
...cold beer and prettiest girls. Two months ago, the gendarmes went "on strike," nabbed A.N.C. Colonel Joseph Damien Tshatshi (known in the Congo as "Tshatshi the Terrible"), sent him back to headquarters in his underwear. Angry and alarmed, A.N.C. Commander Louis Bobozo decided that the time had come to disarm the Kats. When he tried to implement his decision two weeks ago, all hell broke loose in Stanleyville (now called Kisangani...
...done nothing about these murders. All of the constitutionalist officers have been forced into diplomatic exile; only two of the right-wing officers have left the country. The U.S. refuses to see anything "irregular" in this. Several times the provisional government has combed Santo Domingo to disarm constitutionalist civilians, though even the communist factions--which are very small--have foresworn recourse to violence. Yet the U.S. continues to supply the Dominican military. Recently the "neutral" peace force began training the Dominican army in antiguerilla methods...
...latest such case involves Thomas R. Gilligan, the New York City police lieutenant who was off duty when he shot and killed a 15-year-old Negro in 1964, thus triggering six nights of rioting in Harlem and Brooklyn. Gilligan became the symbol of Negro demands that New York disarm off-duty cops and set up a civilian review board to curb police "brutality." Civil rights groups plastered Harlem with his picture under the heading WANTED FOR MURDER...
Having got rid of Wessin y Wessin, the rebels clamored for the ouster of other loyalist officers. Rebel leaders said they would refuse to disarm unless "all the genocide military go-not just Wessin!" The Castroite 14th of June group was openly calling for rebels to keep their weapons, and planeloads of exiles were streaming back to Santo Domingo to participate in a "gigantic" rebel rally this week...