Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black pride, and the efforts it has inspired, should be ultimately thwarted, the present mood could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...
...Hanify argued: "It is difficult to see in the inquest something other than a general inquisition into his reputation and conduct over and above that to which he has already pleaded guilty [leaving the scene of an accident]. I submit that the rights of which he has been deprived present grave constitutional questions...
...turned up in the Thai Northeast to organize support among Vietnamese, then traveled to Hong Kong on Moscow's orders to end a quarrel among other Vietnamese Communists. Ho succeeded: the party that he founded there in 1930 has survived?with two changes of name?down to the present. He was jailed briefly by the British, then fled to Shanghai and on to Moscow. Four years later, he was back in China, a temporary ally of the Chinese Nationalists in the battle against Japan. Early in 1941, Ho returned to Viet Nam, then occupied by the Japanese, for the first...
...Jaafar Nimeiry. The oil-soaked Kuwaitis, Saudis and Libyans, who already donate $378 million a year to war-damaged Egypt and Jordan, stayed away, lest they be touched for even bigger donations. Sure enough, the leaders at the mini-summit made a blunt demand for more money, declaring that "present economic aid is considered less than what is needed...
...prospects are that the triumvirate will quietly scrap Costa's plan for a revised constitution and a civilian Congress. For the present, Lyra Tavares can be expected to pursue Costa e Silva's role as a "moderator" in fending off the Young Turk officers who want the military to clamp an even firmer grip on the country. That is a task that may grow more difficult now that the original moderator has been muted...