Word: rashness
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...Wouldn't it be just as well if candidates used radio and television to express their ideas rather than direct contact with the public for a few years until this rash of unrest passes...
Since then, Fidel has evidently begun cutting back the army-and coincidentally there has been a strange rash of burglaries of foreign embassies. The feeling in the diplomatic community is that the burglaries are the work of ex-soldiers who resent the loss of their special perks-apartments, clothes and consumer goods-and seek to make up for the loss at the expense of well-stocked foreign embassies...
...unbreakable bicycle lock invented by three MIT juniors may help keep down this spring's rash of bike thefts...
...level of violence soared, pessimists feared that McCann's death might prove to be a milestone like Jan. 30, when 13 Catholics at a demonstration were killed by British troops. "Bloody Sunday" fueled the winter's worst rash of bombings and eventually led the British to impose direct rule. Reporting last week on his inquiry into that sorry episode, Britain's Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery blamed the Catholic civil rights demonstrators for creating a "highly dangerous situation" with their illegal march, and some of the troops for action that "bordered on the reckless." But he judged...
...Region II, North Vietnamese troops were maneuvering around Kontum, thought to be a prime Communist target. On the coast, sappers struck the big U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay, killing 3 Americans and wounding 15. Far to the south in the Mekong Delta (Military Region IV), there was a rash of shelling, and attacks hit airfields outside two provincial capitals. For the moment, however, the Communists had really opened only one new "front"; that was in Military Region III, the mid-country region that encompasses Saigon. That area was rapidly becoming the main worry of the U.S. and South Vietnamese...