Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ironic Fate. Most of the protest leaders stayed in the background. Mobilization Chairman David Tyre Dellinger, 53, the shy editor-publisher of Liberation, who led last fall's Pentagon March, studiously avoided the main confrontation before the Hilton. His chief aide, Tom Hayden, 28, a New Left author who visited Hanoi three years ago, was so closely tailed by plainclothesmen that he finally donned a yippie-style wig to escape their attentions. Nonetheless, he was arrested. Rennie Davis, 28, the clean-cut son of a Truman Administration economic adviser, took a more active part as one of the Chicago...
...most ironic fate of all befell Brillo-bearded Jerry Rubin, 30, a former Berkeley free-speecher and now a yippie leader. To protect himself from police strong-arm tactics, Rubin hired a husky, sledge-fisted Chicagoan known as "Big Bob Lavin," whose beard and bellicosity were matched by his ability at bottle-throwing in confrontations with the cops. Big Bob was gassed by the police, fought them valiantly, but was finally clubbed into submission-carrying with him into jail Rubin's tactical diary. Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson...
...invasion. Rusk specifically rejected the contentions that Prague invited the intervention and that there had been any external threat to Czechoslovakia. Between the lines was Washington's all too apparent awareness that it could do as little in secret as it could openly to save Czechoslovakia from its fate...
Americans have really always known this. There are various ways of looking at history: as fate, as chance, as an opponent to be outwitted or a force from which to hide. Americans treat it, at least in part, as a problem to be mastered. Call it pride or pragmatism, on this fundamental belief the U.S. was founded and still stands-that men need not be victims...
...Czechoslovaks and Russians talking in Prague as proof that a warm reception was being given the troops. Any Czech caught speaking to the soldiers, these messages said, would be branded a traitor. Though the people had little notion of the progress of the Moscow negotiations, they knew that their fate hung on them. Nearly 15,000 of them lined the route from Ruzyne airport to the city, waiting in vain some four hours to welcome back their leaders and get some clue to the outcome of the talks...