Word: panther
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bangkok's resplendent Temple of the Emerald Buddha last week, 1,500 soldiers of the Thai Black Panther Di vision worshiped before leaving for Viet Nam to become part of a Thai fighting force that will soon total 10,000 men. Addressing them, Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn made it clear that they were going off to fight for Thailand, which he believes is "the next victim" of Communism in Southeast Asia. "Even today," he said, "the Communists are infiltrating Thailand and increasing their subversive actions against our country." In fact, at least 2,000 guerrillas are busy spreading terror...
Cleaver, who is Minister of Information of the militant Black Panther Party, was forced to stay in New York under the terms of his bail set in Oakland, California. He is awaiting trial there on firearms charges...
...Black Panther leader Billy Seal, standing in for Cleaver last night, urged support for last-minute efforts to put Cleaver's name on the presidential ballot in Massachusetts. The deadline for signatures on nominating papers is this afternoon...
...surprise that Knowland reacted hotly when Negroes organized a boycott of a square block of food and liquor stores called Housewives Market. It was a curious boycott: Negroes had no particular grievance against the stores. But when local Black Panther Leader Bobby Hutton was shot and killed by police last April, black militants decided to retaliate by forcing Housewives Market to support their demands; the chief of these was a call for the indictment of the police involved in the shooting. Despite heavy Negro patronage, the stores understandably demurred, and pickets assembled to turn customers away, often by threatening them...
Meanwhile, to the south near Hue, four U.S. 101st Airborne companies and the Black Panther company of South Viet Nam's 1st Division trapped a North Vietnamese battalion in the village of Phuoc Yen. Throwing a tight cordon around the village, they mercilessly pounded it with artillery for more than a day. As the besieged Communists tried to break out, they were shot down. Then the artillery was stopped, and for an hour loudspeakers in planes and on the ground called on the survivors to surrender...