Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alabama, the Cradle of the Confederacy, was the center of resistance. George Wallace tuned up for his presidential campaign by swinging around the state, telling devotes about the perils of Freedom of Choice. Those black children are goin' into the schools, George said, and that means that the whites ones are goin' to leave. George said that he was shore nuff sorry, but it looked like the state of Alabama wouldn't be able to keep a public school system goin' no more, because there wouldn't be any support from the legislature and the entire white public would resist...
...suggestion that crime is an illness susceptible to prompt presidential cure is misleading. So is Humphrey's glib insistence that the Democrats have a monopoly on prosperity. Both are playing promise-'em-anything politics. It is hardly an original approach, nor one that any candidate can be expected to resist entirely. But at a moment that demands great moral authority in the nation's leaders, something more than what either Humphrey or Nixon has so far offered seems required...
...efforts for detente. That is not because it condones the Soviet acts in Czechoslovakia, but because the magnet of Western culture and trade-as it has already done in Czechoslovakia-must inevitably create a climate in which liberalization will be too great a temptation for the Communist countries to resist. This is particularly important now because the Russians themselves are being forced to admit that dissent is present-and growing-among the intelligentsia, who realize that the only way to a more efficient modern state is through greater freedom of ideas...
...Tibetans have bravely tried to resist their destruction. Fierce mountain tribesmen staged bloody rebellions, and Tibetans forcibly recruited into the army have on occasion turned their weapons against the Chinese. Peking's puppet "Tibet Autonomous Region" collapsed because Tibetan "collaborators," including Mao's own Peking-groomed leader, the Panchen Lama, refused to cooperate with their Chinese overlords any longer. The Chinese had to establish a military dictatorship, and last fall Peking formally abandoned all pretense of Tibetan self-rule...
...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...