Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the feeling persists that the U.S. might have done more to protect Prague. Before the invasion, the Administration had made clear to the So viets that the use of force might seriously jeopardize Soviet-American relations. Missile rattling would have been meaningless because there was no willingness to back it up. The Soviets knew that; Washington knew that they knew it. Almost any overt U.S. involvement could well have given the Russians a further excuse to crack down on Prague...
...Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, the protesters planned a march of 100,000 or more on the amphitheatre. A special 20-page convention issue of Rat, a New York underground newspaper, prescribed the minimal do-it-yourself demonstrator's kit: Vaseline for the skin to protect against Chemical Mace, two pieces of canvas for sleeping in the parks, and at least $200 in bail money...
EMBARKING for the Balaklava of the Chicago stockyards, the foresighted Democratic delegate would ideally-and intelligently-go equipped with: goggles (to protect the eyes from tear gas and Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre...
...most curious confrontations between conqueror and conquered. Hounded by questions, many of the Russians?some of whom were youths no older than 18?looked nervous and stared blankly into the distance to avoid further embarrassment. A few told crowds in the street that they were in Czechoslovakia to protect the people from "counterrevolution" or the "re actionaries" in West Germany. But many had little notion of their mission and were apologetic. "We are only following orders," a youthful paratrooper said to an irate questioner in Prague. "We have our orders. Surely you, too, were once a soldier and know what...
...times and Premier of France twice in the revolving-door days of the Fourth Republic, and under Charles de Gaulle. Faure was De Gaulle's chief troubleshooter in handling the colonial clashes with Morocco and Tunisia. He helped forge new French ties with Red China, fought stubbornly to protect the interests of French farmers in negotiating the full integration of agriculture into the Common Market. If he succeeds in reforming French education without another revolt, it might well be his most significant triumph...