Word: lot
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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...
...country," said one. "We shouldn't have to go out there and do 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...
...Negroes v. the Army. When the demonstration began, the soldiers' division commander, Major General John K. Boles Jr., even spent close to an hour pleading with the recalcitrant troopers, persuaded 17 men to abandon the sit-in and return to barracks. By arresting the 43, in the parking lot, the Army ruled out bringing a charge of refusal to board the airlift to Chicago later in the day. The Army might also have tried them en masse. Instead, they will go before individual courts, accused of disobeying an order...
...broke out on the floor, and Danny was hustled out and locked up in a backstage room for half an hour until a semblance of order could be restored. He returned just in time to hear Mexican Delegate Domingo Rojas blame Soviet influence and Fidel Castro for the sad lot of Cuban anarchists languishing in exile in Miami. "Viva Castro!" shouted Danny. "Your anarchists are paid by the CIA." Once again the congress exploded. "Fascist! You're a fascist!" yelled the delegates. With that, Danny and his group of unofficial French representatives walked out of the conference, taking...
...wing and anti-Communist sentiment appears to be on the rise in the U.S. Even so, it seems a bit superfluous. Ideology of the right is amply available in the Review; news of the rampaging radicals is generously covered in the daily press. Combat will have to unearth a lot more interesting subversives to be worth $24 a year...