Word: kente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From the same people who brought us Viet Nam, Watts, Kent State and Chicago now comes the secret ingredient behind all these blockbusters: "America's special gift ... to subdue tribal turmoil and to homogenize ... a diverse society." As Quebeckers (and Canadians) recovering from recent violence, we can only despair that our nation, too, does not possess this unique quality...
...officer in the Ohio National Guard who witnessed the May 4 Kent State shootings and claims that the lives of the Guardsmen were not in jeopardy, was not called as a witness by the Ohio State Grand Jury that investigated the shootings...
...Ohio National Guardsmen who suddenly wheeled and fired into a crowd at Kent State University last May apparently fabricated their story of imminent danger after their volley killed four students. That damning statement, contained in a Justice Department summary of an exhaustive FBI investigation and read oh the Senate floor by Ohio Senator Stephen Young, directly contradicted the special state-appointed local grand jury that only three weeks ago completely exonerated the Guardsmen...
...Detroit Free Press, Ford said that the National Guardsmen on the campus last May "should have shot all" troublemakers, and that the incidents were Communist-inspired. "I think the whole damn country is not going to quiet down until the police are ordered to shoot to kill." Of the Kent shootings, he said: "The point is, it stopped the riot-you can't argue with that. It just stopped it flat." As Ford spoke, according to Reporter William Schmidt, he toyed with a .45-cal. pistol he keeps near his desk and kidded: "I could shoot...
...silence about the case. He said later he did not think he would be quoted by name, and suggested that he had been misquoted, although he did not say in what way. His bitter outburst brought a deliberately contemptuous statement from one of the most respected figures on the Kent State campus, Geology Professor Glenn W. Frank. In testimony given before the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, headed by William Scranton, Frank had expressed his abhorrence of student violence in strong terms. Within hours after Ford's statement became public he used equally strong language...