Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The U.N. Security Council was called into urgent session to consider Egypt's charges of Israeli aggression. Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed A. El-Kony claimed that the shelling of Port Suez began immediately after an extraordinary meeting of the Israeli cabinet and could not be considered an isolated incident. It "It...
One thing that proved a bit embarrassing for the Labor Party was an incident involving the ebullient George Brown, who is known to enjoy his drink. At a ball for party workers, some 30 photographers zeroed in on the Foreign Secretary. The persistence of the photographers so enraged Brown that...
In Congress, Abe Lincoln proposed the famous "Spot Resolution," demanding that the Administration specify the exact spot on which Mexico had, in the words of Folk's war message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident...
Dancing Dreams. One incident involved Harry Ashmore, former executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette and now executive vice president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, who spent nine days last January visiting North Viet Nam with Miami News Editor Bill Baggs. In a 15,000-word article...
SDS made headlines last spring when Defense Secretary McNamara emerged from Quincy House to find some 800 demonstrators and onlookers blocking his way. Ultimately McNamara was forced to escape through the Leverett tunnel to the Central Kitchens. Harvard apologized officially for the incident, and so did a substantial part of...