Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audiences: "Violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. If you give me a gun and tell me to shoot my enemy, I might just shoot Lady Bird." Echoing Brown, Harlem's defrocked Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, still in Bimini after seven months, did little to help cool off things by announcing in the midst of Detroit's troubles that such riots were "a necessary phase of the black revolution-necessary...
...Everybody says that something needs to be done to Harvard Square," McClennen added, "and I can't help feeling that Urban Renewal is the logical path...
...lack of success, and the astounding performance of the 1967 Red Sox, is as hackneyed as it is true. The old Sox were cursed by a losing mentality. So what if you finish eighth or ninth, whether you win this game or lose it? It's not going to help anybody's paycheck. The players had one overriding interest: themselves. Such self-interest obviously hurts the team, and it puts incredible pressure on the individual players. They are fighting a battle alone...
...kidnapping left the white mercenaries with a plot, but no Tshombe. They therefore rushed into action immediately, much sooner than they had planned. In early July, the foreign mercenaries with the help of local pro-Tshombe forces, revolted against Mobutu's regime. In a week of fighting, the mercenaries accomplished little. Their mutiny and killing of Congolese soldiers provoked two weeks of anti-white hysteria that resulted in the deaths of many mercenaries and about 30 white civilians. The Congolese troops, with the aid of three United States Air Force transport aircraft, suppressed the mercenaries in the east and forced...
These Senators would be more constructive in the Congo situation if they would exert pressure on the State Department to help block any possible execution of Tshombe. His kidnapping, detention in Algeria, and proposed extradition to the Congo has been high-handed. An execution for political reasons would be even worse. No matter how destructive Tshombe has been, the United States should use its influence to convince Mobutu to try Tshombe under Congolese...