Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout a long Texas night, 43 troubled soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division squatted defiantly in a parking lot at Fort Hood, far out in the wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk...
...wrong to our own people. I can't see myself spraying tear gas on my fellow people." A few minutes after 6 a.m., a colonel vainly ordered the 43 to leave the parking lot. Then MPs closed in and quietly led the protesters off to Fort Hood's barbed-wire stockade...
...lawful order must be obeyed," said a Pentagon general about the unpleasantness at Fort Hood. "It is as simple as that." It is not, of course, by any means as simple as that. The Army may well be summoned into action again in Negro ghettos in the future, and the generals are troubled by the possibility that black soldiers will find that they owe higher fealty to the black community than to the U.S. Army. "The problem is so fearful," admits one officer, "that we won't even discuss these people as Negroes." Yet the Army, officially colorblind, cannot...
...which remains the industry's only car with air conditioning as a standard item. The new version is wider and four inches longer than the 1968 model, adding up to a full-size equivalent of Ford and Chevrolet. A.M.C. hopes that new grille and taillight treatment, a sculptured hood à la Lincoln Continental and a dashboard that would do credit to a Boeing 707 will boost the Ambassador. Currently, 1968-model sales are running slightly behind the 1967 level...
...will continue to attend Mass. "I had to make a decision between those values I had lived as a priest and new values," he says. "It was a question, basically, , of what I wanted as a person. It's not that I reject the values of the priest hood." Nor does he reject the value of celibacy. "I can see many difficulties," he adds, "if priests tried to operate as married...