Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first hot breath of trouble came early last month when Peking radio commented acidly that both Macao and Hong Kong occupied "sacred and inviolable" territory of China. Since many of Macao's Chinese population are pro-Peking, it was possibly by design or possibly by chance that a fight broke out two weeks later on Macao's nearby island of Taipa between police and 65 leftist construction workers; amid a melee of flying fists and truncheons, at least 20 persons were injured. Macao's leftist newspapers and labor unions immediately cried "fascist" brutality, and Peking was soon...
...Jordanian troops uncovered one huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will be liberated and tomorrow Palestine...
...under the logotype, all was familiar, and the Trib's Jock Whitney was in Paris with his new cochairman, the Post's Kay Graham, to celebrate the combined operation. Their enthusiasm promised the international edition of the New York Times a fight to the death...
...university," while some others "want to control it." "It's a kind of guerrilla warfare," said Governor Pat Brown. "Their whole attitude is conspiratorial. They don't want answers to problems-they just want problems." And in their zeal for "confrontation politics," the young revolutionaries vowed to fight again...
Liberals and radicals have their rhetorical questions also. Is it fair to ask the poor, who presumably will be attracted to a volunteer army, to fight our wars? Shouldn't there be some feeling of community, a desire to distribute, if not death, then the likelihood of death, among all classes in the population...