Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quick Controversy. The hearing was called to gather information for a pending bill that would make it a crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to give, solicit or advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman...
Carmichael's solution is extremely popular at Negro gatherings in the ghetto, and will continue to gather momentum across the country as Negros become increasingly conscious of their "power to disrupt." But such an isolationist policy will sever communications between liberal whites and Negroes in the civil rights movement at a crucial juncture...
...find solutions to these problems, the Center will send research teams to widely scattered cites to gather information...
North and South, the war continued last week to gather in intensity. The big decision was in the air. U.S. fighter-bombers hit gasoline and oil depots north of Hanoi twice, and it looked as if President Johnson at last was ready to blast the main fuel-storage areas outside Hanoi and Haiphong. U.S. commanders have long wanted to hit the vital "source" targets that enable North Viet Nam's trucks to feed supplies southward into the Ho Chi Minh trail. Until now, in Washington's judicious application of pressure on Hanoi, the petroleum dumps have been...
...organized to protect itsef in a way that gave every villager a sense of participation. Old women went to work constructing punji sticks and booby traps for protective barriers around the village. Teen-age boys manned klaxon alarms. Should they sound at night, the women were taught to gather in the center of the village with flaring pitch torches, while the men held back in the shadows with their guns to ambush Viet Cong intruders. Last March a small Viet Cong propaganda team came, and nearly every villager went to his assigned post. The Reds asked who the leaders were...