Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind few outgoing chief executives have ever had to face. It was complicated immensely by the closeness of the election; he had to judge whether a halt would help Humphrey or be considered a cynical ploy. All the same, when he announced a partial bombing halt last March 31, and simultaneously renounced a second term in office, his popularity rating spurted 13 points. Were Humphrey's standing in the polls to increase by even a third of that amount, his already growing chances to overtake Richard Nixon in the presidential race might be materially enhanced...
...Staff, appealed to the President for 206,000 more U.S. troops in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive. Johnson rejected the request, though he did agree to a modest increase, and the ceiling on U.S. manpower now stands at 549,000. Then came Johnson's March 31 renunciation of a second term and his declaration of a partial bombing pause over the North. Six weeks after that, in mid-May, the Paris peace talks began...
When some demonstrators tried to march on the Soviet embassy, Czech police halted them. Had such outbursts continued, the Soviet tanks outside Prague could easily have rolled back into the city. But the police herded the last protesters home about midnight. Communist Party Chief Alexander Dubcek's government promptly made it clear that it could not tolerate such demonstrations. Police, a spokesman warned, will carry out their "duty of maintaining public order...
...months ago as a civilian with AID, the U.S. foreign-aid agency. He has been nominated for two Purple Hearts for wounds during and since Tet, for the Bronze Star with a V for valor when he rescued four wounded Vietnamese troops from an ambush late in March, and for the South Vietnamese Chuong My medal-the highest a civilian...
...rebuff to the legal department, which has lately taken on cases that the board considers too controversial. N.A.A.C.P. lawyers, for example, have sought the release of such "political prisoners" as Martin Sostre, a black nationalist bookseller who was sent to jail on narcotics charges in Buffalo last March. Whatever the board's motives, the N.A.A.C.P. must recruit replacement lawyers without delay. The association is currently involved in some 150 court actions, and although Carter has offered to remain until Dec. 1 to help complete them, his colleagues indicated that they would be leaving sooner...