Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first few days after the assassination of Martin Luther King last April, the rioting that swept American cities was almost as widespread and destructive as in all of 1967. Last year, 233 racial upheavals in 168 cities and towns caused 82 deaths, 3,400 injuries and 18,800 arrests. By comparison, in April alone this year, 202 racial disturbances hit 172 cities, resulting in 43 deaths, 3,500 injuries and 27,000 arrests. Leaders among both blacks and whites feared that the emotional orgy of those few days would prove to be only a prelude to the nation...
...week, as millions of youngsters left the ghetto streets to return to school, the usual riot season more or less ended. During the summer there have been no disorders as big or bad as the holocausts that gutted Watts, Newark or Detroit in previous years. The U.S. had 286 racial disturbances from May through the end of August, but most were relatively small and short. Though practically any city could still blow, the summer of 1968 now ranks as the most tranquil since...
Even the Tibetans' racial identity is threatened with extinction. Many have been forcibly sterilized to cut the birth rate, and hundreds of Tibetan girls have been compelled to marry Chinese soldiers to further assimilation. Children are sent to distant schools. Visiting such youngsters is out of the question, since no Tibetan may travel more than two miles without a permit. Moreover, tens of thousands of Chinese have been imported to colonize the land, and some 16,000 Tibetan teen-agers have been deported to China for cultural and political brainwashing...
...land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass through the Johannesburg airport passport controls. Despite their dislike of South Africa's harsh apartheid racial policy, the newly independent Swazis are in no position to resist big brother's embrace...
...break up the city's huge, bureaucratic system and turn control of the schools over to community-run local boards. Some such decentralization was ordered by New York's state legislature last year in return for providing the city with more state funds. The move has aroused racial passions, challenged teacher security, unsettled the bureaucrats and touched off public hassles...