Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid a chorus of protest, President Johnson personally requested an explanation, asking U.S. officials in Saigon to answer three questions: 1) Were there Viet Cong in the hamlet? 2) Were the inhabitants forced by the Viet Cong to remain in the hamlet during the attack? 3) Did Viet Cong shoot at a spotter plane that directed the strike? The answer to all three questions, according to American spokesmen, was yes-and illustrated the tragic dilemma of fighting an anti-guerrilla war. Said one experienced U.S. military official: "We're just going to have to go into the Delta...
...colonies in every quarter of the globe. It might, in fact, have ruled more, but the office got off to a bad start. It was created in 1660 as the Council of Foreign Plantations to supervise British settlements in the Western Hemisphere. After the American colonists revolted-partly in protest against the unenlightened policies of Colonial Secretaries-the Colonial Office was abolished for nearly 75 years, and its functions reverted to other ministries. When the Colonial Office was formally re-established in 1854, a portrait of George Washington was whimsically hung over the fireplace in the Colonial Secretary...
...dope peddling, Frei's Interior Ministry suddenly banned prostitution and told owners of nightclubs to take the beds out of the back rooms. This was going too far. No sooner had the order been issued than the madams of Santiago descended on the presidential palace in a mass-protest demonstration. They informed Under Secretary of the Interior Juan Hamilton that unless the ban was removed, they would organize into a sort of body politic to oppose the government at every turn. Furthermore, they pointed out, the closing of the houses would not keep their clients at home; prostitution would...
...explain this overreaction is difficult. The simplest, if not the most complete, explanation is that the marchers represent a real or imagined threat much larger than their own numbers. There is little discrimination between types of protest; this march is like all the others, and represents all others. Or, perhaps one must simply classify the overreaction as "irrational." But whatever the causes, one thing about the overreaction is certain: it is predictable. CNVA understands this--and the question one has to ask is why they keep coming back for more and more...
Here, of course, there are a number of traditional explanations. Publicity? But CNVA hardly tries to increase the size of their demonstrations, and numbers like 10 and 15 do not seem calculated to produce big newspaper headlines. Establishing the right to protest? But CNVA has almost ignored this angle. It does not ask for police protection, and last spring, when there were protests against police inaction, it was the American Civil Liberties Union, not CNVA, that took the lead...