Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect was opposing Tri Quang, whose influence in I Corps is paramount. Tri Quang openly accused the U.S. of supplying guns and tanks to Ky to destroy the Buddhists, and last week his mobs responded by burning the USIS library in Hue to the ground. Police and firemen calmly stood by watching. Later, rebel troops were dispatched to guard U.S. installations in Hué-a move hardly calculated to inspire American confidence. At week's end nearly all U.S. civilians were evacuated...
...bomb scare emptied the Harvard Square Theatre for about 20 minutes last night while Cambridge firemen searched the premises...
...crowd left, the firemen came in--armed with high-powered lights and bomb-disposal equipment. After 20 minutes the search ended...
Frustration has spawned violence. Negro youths last year burned the sheriff's substation nearest Marin City, hailed rocks and gasoline bombs on patrolling deputies. In a flare-up this month, several buildings were set ablaze and responding firemen pelted with rocks. During a meeting at which Negroes voiced their grievances, County Administrator Alan Bruce, a white man, declared: "Whitey is beginning to understand why he is hated so much...
...went ahead and fined two union officials $25,000 each. The railroads meanwhile were plotting damage suits on losses that could total up to $20 million. Nor did the union win any concessions on the issue over which it had struck: its demand for the restoration of 18,000 firemen's jobs eliminated as obsolete under a federal arbitration ruling. Said Railroad Negotiator J. E. ("Doc") Wolfe: "That issue has been permanently laid to rest...