Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during that time I didn't see any evidence of racial problems. When a man is in prison, it just doesn't matter what his color is." He then went on to defend George Jackson. "Let's face it. Nobody could ever hide a gun in their hair. Any GI who's ever carried a 45 knows that this whole story given by prison officials is pure bunk." The entire crowd, led by the group of Teamsters, cheered loudly. Only one more tough question remained. Someone asked if the New Crusader approved of Nixon's wiretapping policies. The New Crusader...
...Zulus slogged through mud and mist for the ceremony on a hillside in one of the 29 scattered patches of land that make up the Zulu Bantustan, a separate homeland set up by the apartheid government in Pretoria. Warriors rattled their assegais (short, stabbing spears) against oxhide shields. "Si-gi-di [Strength]," they thundered in unison, recalling the classic battle cry of the Zulu armies...
...support, placating to some extent people who felt that the conference was slighting questions of foreign policy. The statement called the Indochina war "an acute crisis demanding continued action" and recommended continued action" and recommended continued local and national demonstrations and other anti-war actions. It supported anti-war GI's and veterans, and called for local NAM chapters to devote resources to "education around the international aspects of imperialism...
...from i-de-o-lo-gi-cal divisions...
...only way I have been able to understand the war is to pretend that each time a GI or a Vietnamese dies, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that had died. By now over a million Vietnamese have died and probably eighty thousand Americans. All of America could not begin to digest that much sorrow... We are left with the freedom, and also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity...