Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAVEN, Mar. 16--"For an hour yesterday afternoon," reported the Yale Daily News in its Sunday extra on the weekend snow riots, "New Haven had all the appearance of being a city...
...trouble began at the end of the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday afternoon when an undergraduate crowd, perhaps upset by the tough handling of rioters during Thursday's outbreak, loitered in the streets and threw a few snowballs at a group of massed New Haven police. Joined by motorcycle units and supported by fire-hoses, the police, using their clubs freely, charged the crowd...
While recognizing the faults of the students in provoking the riot with snow, jeers, and Nazi flags, many New Haven citizens and university officers have joined students in condemning what has been called "storm-trooper tactics" on the part of the city police, one of whom triumphantly observed, "These guys started the fight...
...Haven police station reported a steady influx of phone calls filled with cries of "Gestapo" and language "profane beyond all belief." A spokesman maintained that there had been no unneeded roughness and that, to his knowledge, no arrests had been made unfairly...
...rivalries. South Viet Nam declares that Cambodia allows Communist Viet Minh guerrillas to cross its territory to stage raids in South Viet Nam; in retaliation, South Vietnamese troops picked up a border marker, moved it 1½ miles into Cambodia and threw a minefield around it. Thailand has given haven to opponents of Sihanouk. In a huff at these acts by his anti-Communist neighbors, Sihanouk accepted increased economic aid from Red China, broke diplomatic relations with Thailand. In recent months the volatile Prince has grown more nervous...