Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once more inform the West that Czechoslovakia was a purely domestic affair and that no invasion was under consideration for that other errant East bloc country, Rumania. Even so, Soviet actions were less than reassuring. In addition to tightening their hold on captive Czechoslovakia (see following story), the Soviets kept up the pressure on Rumania by insisting that it open new talks on their bilateral "friendship treaty," which President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu had resisted for nearly a year. Ceauşescu last week caved in, and the Soviets immediately came back at him with their other...
...memorial, where only days before angry crowds had confronted Soviet tanks, hippies strummed their guitars. Prague police hustled young Czechoslovaks away from the statue of Wenceslas, the country's patron saint, where for days they had kept a silent vigil in honor of the 70 or so patriots who died under Soviet guns and tank treads in the first days of the invasion. On the spot where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing...
...year-old Avalokiteshvara, the eleven-headed image of the Buddhist god of mercy. It was cast into the gutter behind Lhasa's ravaged Tsukla-khang (Central Temple) amid burning sutras and tantric scriptures. The last 400 of Tibet's former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been harshly suppressed. Red Guards relentlessly destroy household altars. Their favorite punishment for Tibetans caught practicing religious rites is to lock them in a room, tell them that "your God will supply...
...inhabitants died as it fell. The earthquake rumbled across the Iranian countryside, destroying 14 villages, and severely damaging another 16. The appalling toll: 10,988 dead, another 1,820 seriously injured and 91,000 homeless. For most of the week, a series of aftershocks kept the surviving population in terror. One tremor traveled 1,600 miles across Turkey to the Black Sea coast, snuffing out the lives of another 32 persons and injuring...
...procedures under which the local committee was to act were never clearly defined. When the committee tried to get rid of 13 teachers and six supervisors last May, New York School Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan called the action illegal. Many outraged parents kept their children out of class, and equally irate teachers walked out in support of their colleagues. The teachers were stoutly backed by U.F.T. President Albert Shanker, who denounced the dismissals as a denial of "due process...