Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five unarmed American officers faced Viet Cong envoys dressed in grubby khakis during a 24-hour Christmas Day truce. Their futile talks, lasting two hours and 22 minutes, were supposed to deal with the release of three G.I.s. The Communists, who met with the Americans beneath a Viet Cong flag, seemed principally concerned with obtaining some form of U.S. recognition of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. The American prisoners remained in captivity after it was all over. The Viet Cong want another meeting in the same paddy at 9 a.m. on New Year...
...descended on Beirut international airport, located only five miles from downtown and on the edge of the city's suburbs. As an Israeli spokesman told it later, one group, equipped with smoke bombs, coolly set up a roadblock to keep Lebanese troops away. The others, ignoring parked foreign-flag aircraft, headed straight for the planes of the country's lines: Lebanese International Airways, Middle East Airlines and Trans-Mediterranean, a cargo carrier...
...real plan emerged, but that night two of them hung a Czechoslovak flag out of an apartment window, then painted the word Dubcek on the walls of East Berlin's Staatsbibliothek. They were caught a few hours later...
...made privately and in writing, that is the kind of sweet demurrer Commissioner Pete Rozelle would have liked to receive from the Redskins' coach. Graham, however, chose the more traditional method of disputing a call: he blew his stack. He raged onto the field and threw a penalty flag at an official, and later told reporters: "The officials stole the game from us!" For such bad manners, Rozelle socked Graham with a reported $2,500 fine...
Since then, various groups have carried forward the attack on middle-age values and life styles. The Fugs developed a special brand of buffoonery that included two outrageous onstage stunts now favored by the MC5: removing their clothes and burning the U.S. flag. The Mothers of Invention honed a cutting musical satire ("It's such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom and Dad"). San Francisco's Country Joe and The Fish have focused on the war in Viet Nam as a symptom of national sickness ("Be the first one on your block to have your...