Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Negroes-many of whom had hurled rocks and fire bombs the night before-who tramped the slums in white hard hats and warned the mobs to cool it. By midweek, thanks to their efforts, the temperature of violence had fallen enough for Governor Kirk to order the National Guard back to their homes...
...spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National Guard. Police read the state riot act to the mobs over loudspeakers, then arrested 16 Negroes who were "congregating" in defiance...
...last week. Some 20,000 people lined the streets as Lieut. General Lew Walt, 54, just back from his two-year stint as commanding officer of the Marines in Viet Nam, perched on the rear seat of a 1912 International Autowagon and led a parade of school bands, color guards, flag-waving children and the 70-man Marine Recruit Depot Band. Rousing as it all was, the real kick for Walt was his return visit to Colorado State University at Fort Collins, where the toughest general in the Corps posed beamishly in a football helmet, much like...
...Review Policy on Reserves, National Guard...
...Reserves and Natiodnal Guard should be considered ready, and should actually be ready, to serve in an emergency. If, however, as recent experience suggests, they are either not ready or not available for a war on the scale of the war in Vietnam, the worth of continuing the present reserve and National Guard system ought to be brought into question...