Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order policy, almost to the exclusion of other questions facing a troubled nation. Once, the term might have been used in all innocence to describe the minimal conditions necessary to maintain a democratic society. No longer. Today it has become a loaded catchall, with room for every suspicion, grudge, fear, resentment and jealousy that divides the American electorate...
...dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles as well...
...NATO planners, the new situation is fraught with uncertainties. They fear that a Soviet attack on Rumania might spark widespread uprisings in the East bloc that could spill over into a NATO area. The West Germans are most concerned of all. Though most people find it unthinkable that the Soviets would risk the start of World War III by attacking a NATO member, the West Germans nonetheless worry that the Soviet leaders might try to intimidate them with a further show of force that could, perhaps by accident, turn into an invasion. Reports of Soviet tactical nuclear missiles in Czechoslovakia...
Meanwhile, the Soviet press resumed its attacks against Prague. In a Moscow dispatch, Tass reported that the counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia had assumed such great proportions that workers who were loyal to socialism lived in fear for their very lives. A Polish army newspaper chimed in with a report that revisionists and Zionists in Czechoslovakia refused to give up their fight against Communism...
...City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind the Shield: "The hostility and fear that almost palpably press against a policeman in lower-class areas aggravate his impulse to 'get tough...