Word: fomenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cong forces on Cambodian soil "have begun actions against the Cambodian people and our soldiers" near the border, and Prince Sirik Matak warned that an attack by thousands of Communist troops "could not be ruled out." There were reports that several thousand Communist troops had entered the country to foment trouble, and the new government called up its reserves and asked all veterans to report for duty. Meanwhile, in Laos, rampaging Communist forces were less than 1½ miles away from the key CIA base at Long Cheng. A new chapter in the turbulent history of Indochina was unfolding...
...women and two men argued and horse-traded for four days before reaching a verdict on the charges against the Chicago Seven-which were that they had conspired to incite a riot during the 1968 convention, and that they had individually crossed state lines with intent to foment a riot. In the long days of the trial, the jurors-ordinary Americans perplexed by the impassioned pleas and portentous issues set before them-had almost become forgotten people. At first a majority of eight, including the two men, favored convicting all of the defendants of both conspiracy and the individual charges...
...Albanians-who recently received three different Peking Cabinet delegations-have also unleashed something akin to Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. But where Mao's obstreperous young Praetorians deliberately sought to foment anarchy as a way of reviving the regime's revolutionary spirit, Hoxha's guards have become Tirana's disciplinary watchdogs. Some purges have already begun at the district level...
Thus began the two hours of Daley's testimony last week at the trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to foment riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention. From the defendants' point of view, the mayor's appearance might as well have ended where it began...