Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Means to an End. This same line was piped by Indian Delegate Jha as the U.N. Security Council met in response to Portugal's call for the U.N. to "denounce and rectify this lawless action of the Indian government." Said Jha bluntly: "This is a question of getting rid of the last vestiges of colonialism in India. Charter or no Charter, Security Council or no Security Council, that is our basic faith, which we cannot afford to give up at any cost." With breathtaking, topsy-turvy logic, Jha indicted Portugal as the aggressor. "It is not India that...
...Minutemen [Nov. 3] connote a creepy sensation. Thoughts of these persons roaming the countryside instill as great a dread as enemy invasion. There would be bloodshed among our own, for who would submit to these lawless bands, which are a natural recess for enemy agents and crackpots? History is replete with the dreadful accounts of predatory irregulars...
Many Portuguese Angolans are appalled by the lawless terror that is overwhelming the province, would gladly leave if they could. But Salazar recently forbade any white male between 18 and 45 to leave Angola, has sharply limited the export of funds out of Angola. At week's end, there were some signs of sanity in Portugal itself. In a public memorandum to Salazar, 61 leading Portuguese demanded drastic changes in the constitution to bring about a more democratic rule in the homeland-as the first step toward solving Portugal's smoldering colonial problems abroad...
...Lawless Years, Lyle...
...white students ("Make way for the nigger"), reveled in a countering welcome from others ("She has such poise"). But that night, even as Georgia was being toasted across the nation for a display of tolerance and maturity, Students Hunter and Holmes learned that human behavior can be blind and lawless...