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...advised. "You must believe you can become a doctor or lawyer or nurse or the alderman for your ward." After the Miami riots, Jackson told his followers in Chicago: "Our young people must not consider it a badge of courage, with blood in their eyes, to run headlong into an organized military brigade, and to run from genocide to suicide. It's a bad strategy and it will not work...
...likely to encounter considerable skepticism. A senior West German diplomat says that his government, while nearly fed up with the Carter Administration's blunders and mixed signals, is "apprehensive, to put it mildly," about the G.O.P. leader. He adds: "He will find us extremely reluctant to rush headlong with him into a new cold war." Reagan has stated that one of his first items of business will be to deploy the neutron bomb in Western Europe, but the West Germans and other NATO allies have already put the U.S. on notice that they will permit the upgrading...
...headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and other Latin American countries over their policy of granting political asylum to gatecrashing Cubans who manage to gain entrance to their embassies. There is some suspicion that in withdrawing guards from the Peruvian compound officials knew what would happen: thousands of unhappy Cubans from every walk of life began streaming into...
...headlong revolutionary plunge could hardly last. In February 1970 Marshall and others helped organize a downtown Seattle demonstration to protest the verdicts of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. By December, after a monthlong trial in which he and six others (the eighth alleged plotter went underground) were unsuccessfully prosecuted for conspiracy to damage the Seattle Federal Building, he was in jail for contempt of court. All seven would have been freed had they not provoked the elderly judge with catcalls during the proceedings. At one point, two of them presented him with a Nazi flag...
...evening is a headlong delight, and a special exhilaration arises from Shaw's gift for wittily unlocking treasures of the mind with the sly, sensitive touch of a safecracker...