Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Nation. Some observers in Saigon, in fact, compared the session with the Battle of Midway, which, 27 years ago this week, turned the tide in the Pacific war. If the comparison was vastly exaggerated, it did express Saigon's fear that the Nixon Administration might be willing to make concessions in Paris that would destroy the Thieu regime. "Our government obviously wants to know the intentions of the United States," said Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's chief negotiator in Paris, who then pointedly recalled Nixon's words that "a great nation cannot renege on its pledges...
...Splinter Parties," those with less than five per cent of the vote, to be represented in the Bundestag, as they are not now. He wants the Chancellor to stop taking emergency powers in his hands. He wants the Communist Party to be given recognition and he criticizes the "Communist fear" that has motivated some political decisions. And, much as he hates the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, he prefers that they remain a political party rather than become an underground organization...
...violence in some cities, particularly where blacks hold or seek high office. Newark Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city's Negro community-and to raise black hopes...
Causes for concern persist, of course. Police in Chicago worry about a continuation of the snipings and gang shoot-outs that have claimed 29 lives since the beginning of the year. Authorities in New York fear that racial turmoil centered in the schools may spill into the community at large this summer. Pittsburgh police are alert for guerrilla warfare in integrated mill neighborhoods. Despite these threats, despite the knowledge that a single unexpected incident can turn hope to ashes-literally-the dominant mood is that this year the cities are not for burning...
...cost of borrowing money has been rising rapidly ever since the Federal Reserve Board decided last December to get tough about inflation. Last week the deliberate squeeze on credit pushed many interest rates to the highest levels since 1929, causing considerable anxiety among bankers. Many moneymen fear that one more turn of the Federal Reserve's monetary screws might, as the Bank of America put it, cause "serious disruption in the financial markets and create conditions that would generate a recession...