Word: guarded
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...Youngstown, Ohio, from Pompano Beach, Fla., to Pittsburg, Calif., compiled a depressing dossier of destruction: 5,117 fires, 1,928 homes and shops wrecked or ransacked, 23,987 arrests throughout the nation, and $39,544,205 in damage to property (see BUSINESS).* In all, 72,800 Army and National Guard troops were called to duty. Yet riot-connected deaths totaled only 43-no more than in Detroit alone last summer...
...Minister Huey P. Newton, 26, is in jail awaiting trial for killing an Oakland policeman; Chairman Bobby Seale, 31, was convicted last week of illegal possession of weapons, and Cleaver, who has spent 12 of his adult years in prison for narcotics and assault convictions, was being held under guard in a hospital as a parole violator...
...victims. Unknown assailants took the lives of eight; nine were slain by private citizens; police killed 13. Ten died in fires or from inhaling smoke and three from other causes. In contrast with last summer's bloodbath, not one killing was blamed on the National Guard or the federal troops who were called into the cities...
Harry Truman signed on as honorary chairman, symbolizing, along with James Farley and George Meany, the old guard. Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Fred Harris of Oklahoma represent youngish liberals. There were senior Congressmen from Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...
...faith that he repeated often: "It is their war and they will have to win it." But the fact is that for the past three years, U.S. troops have taken charge of the war, making virtual wards of the South Vietnamese and consigning a third of them to pacification guard duty. That strategy was originally built on the assumption that the massive infusion of half a million American fighting men would enable the allies to win a clear-cut victory over the invading North Vietnamese and decimate the indigenous Viet Cong...