Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past four years, President Johnson has called upon Cyrus Roberts Vance to exercise his unique talent for peacemaking in crisis. When the Dominican Republic exploded in 1965, Vance supervised the U.S. military effort to prevent a Communist takeover. He directed the force of federal troops that restored quiet to Detroit after last summer's riots, and last month advised the capital's Mayor Walter Washington in the violence following Martin Luther King's assassination. In November, Vance negotiated a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis; in February he soothed irate South Koreans who wished to retaliate when...
...residence. Numerous shells landed in the Chinese section, Cholon. But the main enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where Communist forces unsuccessfully attempted to follow up a mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded when five mortar rounds hit the Danang headquarters of Marine Commander Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman...
...rioting and looting spread over a ten-block area of Hamilton, causing $1,000,000 in damage and leaving seventeen persons injured. Bermuda's British Governor, Lord Martonmere, declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and asked for-and received-365 additional troops from Britain. All seemed quiet again by last week, but, like the scent of hibiscus, tension hung heavy in Bermuda's balmy...
There were, of course, grandstanders who tried to exploit the situation with faked cries of pain. One youth, dropped gently to the grass by officers, lay quiet until they moved away, then shouted...
Planned as a quiet discussion with a panel of Harvard professors and out-of-town school officials, the forum quickly became a verbal free-for-all. Community representatives--consisting of most of Roxbury's prominent leaders--zeroed in on Anderson, director of Operation Schoolhouse, competing in the ferocity of their invective. The demands--control of Anderson's Boston-contracted money, immediate hiring of blacks to his all-white task force--took him by surprise, and the intensity of the hostility left the Ed School stunned. Eventually, community leaders walked out, telling the panelist that if Harvard professionals wanted to talk...