Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whether or not the Detroit riot [Aug. 4] could have been contained in the beginning will continue to be debated. The publicly announced position of the city administration was that "lives are more valuable than property." If this is true, why would we ever fight...
...Saudi summer capital of Taif, King Feisal was "pleased" at Nasser's offer, and the Imam-living in exile half a mile from Feisal's summer palace-promised to send his rugged royalist troops to fight with Egypt against Israel, if Nasser finally does live up to the agreement he signed two years...
...hearty-mannered young men in open-necked sports shirts spend most of their time carefully scanning the help-wanted ads. Right now there are few openings for their specialized skills. But they are sure that somewhere soon, most likely in Africa or the Middle East, they will find a fight that they will be paid to join. They are mercenary soldiers, members of a dwindling fraternity of adventurers who lay their lives on the line for money...
...teammates to reach the scene - and it took 20 cops ten minutes to break up the battle that ensued. The best that could be said for Lee's ges ture was that it was quixotic. The Cardinals won the game 7-3. They also won the fight - one bloody face, one bruised jaw and one chipped tooth to none...
...temptation, of course, is to avoid the decision. Riots, people say, are the result of revolting conditions-- they are the price for 200 years of white supremacy. Riots, the argument continues, will knit Negro communities together and will make Black men realize the depth of the struggle they must fight. Finally, riots start spontaneously; they are not planned weeks in advance by a handful of "highly trained agitators in some underground hideout." In conclusion, riots appear to be an unavoidable phenomenon dictated by the conditions which have come before; they are like any other natural disaster, only they...