Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Guard forces," Resor told the Senate Committee, "are more than adequate for the discharge of all but the most extraordinary state security missions when they are well led, used decisively on the basis of advance planning, and appropriately trained, equipped and organized...
...announced that the Army would start a special school in civil disorders for ranking Guardsmen later this month at Fort Gordon, Ga. To further lessen the chance of Regular Army troops being needed to quell city riots, the Pen tagon has established a unique logistics system that will supply Guard units with specialized riot gear not normally issued through regular channels. Protective body armor, bullhorns, search lights and portable tear gas dispensers have been stockpiled at scattered secret depots throughout the nation. Enough radio sets to equip two infantry divisions have been pre-positioned on the East and West coasts...
...illegal public strike cannot be tolerated lest more strikes be encouraged and that Rockefeller's takeover scheme violated the tradition of home rule. Lindsay was not exactly blameless. He had not made adequate advance preparations for the strike, and his abrupt demand that Rockefeller mobilize the National Guard to collect the garbage presented serious problems.-But the Lindsay position, based on sound principle, had the public relations virtue of offering dramatic resistance to a public menace...
...state," Nixon declared, "cannot and must not be rewarded." Ronald Reagan observed that Rockefeller was "treading on thin ice." Even George Romney, the beneficiary of Rockefeller's political largess, allowed that "where there is a breakdown of public service, I would order in the National Guard...
...danger in using the Guard was potential violence. No Rockefeller can forget the 1913-14 strike at the family-controlled Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. at Ludlow. At least 25 people, including women and children, died in the shooting and in fires that broke out after the militia intervened; the number of dead was never precisely established. Lindsay, however, stipulated that he wanted the troops to be unarmed, with local police providing security...