Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a situation the duty of the steadfast follower of the Maoist Line is to break with all forms of reaction and revisionism. The "inevitable victory of People's War" is impossible unless there is an unobscured confrontation between the foreign oppressors and a People's Liberation Army inspired by Chairman Mao's thought and free from revisionist influence...
...Tonkin Gulf during the early days of August 1964 is a question that historians may ponder for decades. All the details will probably never be established. For present-day Americans, the knowable facts are of more than academic interest, since the events of those days set off a chain reaction, beginning with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in Congress, which has sent more than a million U.S. troops to battle in South Viet Nam. The following account is based on the Defense Department's official report-much of which was secret until last week-and an exhaustive Associated Press reconstruction...
...Increasingly the reaction, when one is frustrated, is to pull a gun or call out the troops or drop the bomb," he told a news conference. "I don't honestly think that this is going to be the answer to our problems at home or to problems internationally." In Detroit, where he spoke at week's end at a Romney fund-raising luncheon, Rocky emerged just long enough from his noncandidate's shell to tell reporters flatly that he would accept a draft at the convention-"if one came about...
...West Berlin, whose citizens know they owe their freedom to American determination to keep them free. Thus last week, when 10,000 leftist students marched through the streets carrying Communist banners, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh" and crying their hatred of the "Amis," the city's reaction was immediate and visceral. Spurred by angry newspaper editorials, Mayor Klaus Schutz called West Berliners out for a giant pro-American demonstration that would serve as "an answer to the radicals and rowdies in our city...
...braced for a flood of criticism. In fact, he received more mail on the column than on anything else he had written in his eleven years in journalism, but he found his 450 letters running 3 to 1 in support of his position. Last week he mused over the reaction in a column for the International Herald Tribune. "We can now firmly discount the myth that practically nobody in Britain understands and supports the American stand over Viet Nam," he wrote...