Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daley's defense was, perhaps understandably, a self-justifying recitation of the debacle as seen from police headquarters. It portrayed the protesters principally as "terrorists" and "revolutionaries," made no attempt to distinguish between radical leaders, yippies, McCarthy partisans and other disaffected youths. "The dual goals of immediate disruption and ultimate destruction were pursued in Chicago against the Government under the guise of a protest against the war in Viet Nam," said the report. The press and TV, it went on, "responded with surprising naiveté and were incredibly misused...
...Chicago Fraternal Order of Police demanded television time of its own to reply to the "biased" TV coverage. A protest leader, David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Commit tee, also insisted on network exposure to broadcast a denunciation of the cops. To much of the nation, it hardly seemed that Daley's probity needed defending. Radio and TV stations, newspapers and politicians' offices showed letters running as much as 20 to 1 in favor of Daley and the Chicago police. Daley's mail, by his aides' account, was a cascade of praise. TIME reporters found that...
Sensibly, the generals are therefore straining to prevent the protest at Fort Hood from becoming a case of 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...
From Spontaneity to Sniping. There is, however, another ominous trend in the land. Violence as a form of Negro protest appears to be changing from the spontaneous combustion of a mob to the premeditated shoot-outs of a far-out few. Many battles have started with well-planned sniping at police...
Unsoothed by a summer's vacation, the nation's restive schoolteachers last week faced the reopening of classes in a belligerent mood of complaint and protest. Last-minute compromises prevented strikes that would have shut down the school systems of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Toledo. Teachers did go on strike in East St. Louis, Ill., as well as in scattered school districts from Rhode Island to Utah, including 16 districts in Michigan...