Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shane's reporting about the character of certain demonstrations at Boston University last spring is completely off base. There was never a situation in which tactical police were in full riot gear on campus waiting for demonstrators to arrive. The Boston Tactical Police were called to the campus last May 1, 1973, by an official of the Boston police who was on campus at the invitation of the University. This Boston Police official did not call the tactical police until it was necessary to do so. Mr. Shane does not point out that despite the nastiness of the crowd...
Earlier, Israeli Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir said in Jerusalem that Israel had lost nearly a billion dollars worth of combat gear in the first 100 hours of fighting...
...Marine recruiter revisited the campus May 2. Although the leadership of a university sought "an alternative to...police intervention," B.U.'s administration, in anticipation of trouble, asked for tactical police in full riot gear to await the demonstrators...
...most trying and tumultuous week of his political life, Spiro Agnew suddenly decided to seek a brief respite in a little afternoon tennis. He asked his press secretary to join him. "Fine," replied Marsh Thomson, "but I'll have to go home and get my gear." Lugging his bag, Thomson arrived back at the Executive Office Building just before 4 o'clock only to find his boss unexpectedly engaged. In the corridor outside Richard Nixon's first-floor hideaway office, he recognized two of the Secret Servicemen assigned to Agnew. The President and the Vice President were...
...tall and most definitely brunette, and she grew up into a towering 5-ft. 11-in. handsome woman with the voice of a diesel truck in second gear. Last year that imposing, now graying, woman with the small blonde ingénue inside marched onto the nation's television screens as Maude. It took fate 40-odd years to get around to her, but Bea Arthur is finally a star...