Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitching In. Meanwhile, Governor Pat Brown's special commission to probe the cause of the riots, headed by former CIA Director John McCone, held its first meeting, decided to submit its report by Dec. 1. Addressing the commission, Governor Brown said: "The fate not only of Los Angeles but of other cities in California and the nation may well depend on your findings...
...brought up on a propaganda and textbook diet of hatred for Japan as Korea's traditional foe. Moved more by emotional chauvinism than by politics, the students still bitterly remember heroine Queen Min, who was stabbed to death by Japanese assassins in 1895-a film portraying her sad fate has been playing to packed moviehouses...
...Park's 1961-1963 junta. In cracking down, Park was well aware that the regime of ex-President Syngman Rhee was overthrown by demonstrations in 1960. As truckloads of soldiers patrolled the streets to crush further uprisings, it was evident that Park intended to avoid a similar fate...
...million, with 744 buildings damaged or destroyed by fire, 457 picked bare by looters. Nearly 4,300 had been arrested, and the total kept on mounting as Negroes who sported telltale new clothes or possessions were hauled in on suspicion of receiving stolen goods. To avoid a similar fate, other looters began abandoning their booty. Police recovered more than 50,000 stolen articles: television sets, a score of sofas, hundreds of lamps, a truckload of beer. More than 3,000 of those arrested faced felony charges ranging from looting and armed burglary to arson and murder. To complicate things...
...disaster area, making them eligible for immediate federal aid−mostly in the form of well-digging and construction of new pumping and pipeline facilities. Northern New Jersey, which had been expected to fun out of water in mid-November, and New York City, which faced the same fate in February, thus won a reprieve in which to devise new conservation methods, tap new water sources and pray...