Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...
...popular approval by announcing that some 50 political prisoners will be released six days before the referendum. Among them are two ex-Premiers: liberal George Papandreou and conservative Panayotis Kanellopoulos. The gesture seems conciliatory, but in fact is largely empty. Even if the freed opposition leaders want to fight the constitution, their access to the voters is restricted by press censorship under martial law. Nor is the government radio likely to find any time for them. The amnesty does not apply to the 2,000 Greek Communists and other far-leftists interned on the Aegean islands of Leros and Yiaros...
Four Demands. It was the second time the government had given its student rebels a cause. The riots started in July, when city granaderos, or riot cops, quelled a fight among prep-school boys and briefly occupied one of the school buildings. When the students protested, paratroopers moved in with tanks, armored cars and bazookas. They temporarily stopped the riots, but at the price of turning most of Mexico's students against them...
Despite occasional speculation that Minh might be more acceptable to the Communists than any one of the present Saigon leaders, he makes it clear in an article in the current Foreign Affairs quarterly that they are not acceptable to him. To fight the Communists more effectively, he insists, Saigon must foster "rice-roots" participation and leadership. Minh describes the National Liberation Front as the "disloyal opposition wholly responsive to Hanoi. It is the true enemy in our midst." He adds pointedly: "As an organization, it cannot be dealt with by suasion or compromise, much less by coalition." That is pretty...
...strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying to charter a boat for three months: "I come from muskie country. This is the nearest thing to deep-sea fishing I'll ever...