Word: guardsmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State shooting and the parents of the four youths who were killed on May 4, 1970, had filed a $46 million civil suit against Ohio Governor James Rhodes, former Kent State University President Robert White, Ohio National Guard Commanders Robert Canterbury and Sylvester Del Corso and a number of Guardsmen involved in the firing. They did so as a last resort. An Ohio state grand jury that looked into the case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell had refused even to convene a federal grand jury...
...duty to protect the rights of his students by letting the Guard take over the campus? Was the student rally that day peaceful and legal, or was it properly dispersed by the soldiers? Did the commanders negligently permit their men to carry loaded weapons? Were the students endangering the Guardsmen's lives with their rock throwing...
Given the tempers on all sides, the prospects are that Boston will need every one of the more than 2,000 police and National Guardsmen who will be on hand to try to keep the peace when the buses begin to roll week after next. Boston's black community, which remained generally quiet last year, has grown increasingly restive about undiminished white opposition to busing. Indeed, sparks have already begun to fly. Last week several hundred members of the Committee Against Racism marched on city hall to demand that antibusing activists be indicted for violating the rights of schoolchildren...
...been five years since Allison, Sandy, Bill and Jeff were killed by Ohio Guardsmen. They were killed because they, along with others, were protesting our incursion into Cambodia. What do we have to show for these five years of more war in Indochina except thousands of American soldiers killed, 1 million Cambodians killed or wounded, hundreds of thousands of refugees, rampant inflation in our land, unemployment and destroyed dominoes...
Mashek found that Ford "met with an imposing variety of people," in an "air of humming activity." Hersey, who couldn't keep his eyes off the "twinkling Adam chandeliers," the "proud Hoban columns like marble guardsmen," and the violins of the U.S. Marine Band, was similarly impressed. A lot happens during his week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Burns explains the economy to the president, bringing with him "several charts; on some of them upwardness is visible." At a cabinet meeting the president asks Earl Butz. "Are the farmers happy. Earl?" Earl replies evenly. "No sir, they aren...