Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration has been under intense pressure to bomb the Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Echoing the Joint Chiefs, politicians of both parties -notably Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and his opposite number in the House, South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers-have be gun to protest that privileged targets hamper the war effort. Richard Nixon called for stepped-up bombing of the North to prevent the U.S. from becoming "bogged down" in the ground war. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford and Republican Conference Chairman Melvin Laird warned that Viet Nam would be a major issue...
...beamed at India, which has received the lion's share ($2.6 billion) of Food for Peace commodities, last year took 15% of the entire U.S. wheat crop-and still faces famine (see THE WORLD). Ghana had a ruder awakening. Two days after the State Department lodged a strong protest over a new virulently anti-American book by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. declined his government's request for $129 million worth of wheat, rice and dried milk. Faced with ever dwindling reserves and ever increasing demand, the Administration made clear that The Redeemer had better...
...Time. Carrying signs with neatly lettered slogans such as SUPERVISED CEASEFIRE, marchers tramped to the base of the Washington monument for oratory by demonstration sponsors. Cried Baby Doctor Spock: "When will the Administration grow up and stop blaming Communists for America's mistakes?" Protest leaders, who took pains to maintain order, posted more than 300 monitors to "persuade" leftist hangers-on to keep down their signs urging U.S. surrender and an immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. To show that they, at least, were ready for negotiations any time the Communists were willing, SANE leaders capped the proceedings by sending...
...editors protest too much. Their latest offering is not an embarrassment. This time there are no gimmicks, no reprints of the adolescent Wallace Stevens. And quite a bit of talent has returned from the recent past. At least people like Dawson and Meyers wail their angst tolerably well...
This had to be the first anti-Vietnam rally ever at which invocation was read (there were large pockets of people who refused to stand up for it). Most of the speakers went out of their way to disown the more radical elements of the protest movement...