Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissidents have come back," he said. "I think we'll have a pretty good united front." Indeed, some key supporters of Eugene McCarthy, including former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, were back in the fold and others were expected to return in time. One who will not: Louisiana's Governor John McKeithen, who announced that he will not back Humphrey, thus in effect ceding his state to Wallace. McCarthy himself remained silent. Said a Democrat who had earlier opposed the Vice President, but is now aiding him: "Everything in life boils down...
...double role of campaign manager and national chairman was that he have absolute authority. However, he will not stay long enough to effect a complete overhaul of the creaky party machinery. Serving without pay, O'Brien, 51, promised to remain only through the election. He is anxious to return to private life and write a book about his years in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
...protest at Fort Hood from becoming a case of Negroes v. the Army. When the demonstration began, the soldiers' division commander, Major General John K. Boles Jr., even spent close to an hour pleading with the recalcitrant troopers, persuaded 17 men to abandon the sit-in and return to barracks. By arresting the 43, in the parking lot, the Army ruled out bringing a charge of refusal to board the airlift to Chicago later in the day. The Army might also have tried them en masse. Instead, they will go before individual courts, accused of disobeying an order...
...those fears have not been realized. Last 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...
...defiance to docility was a conscious and uncomfortable act of a people who by and large are not collaborators but simply captives. It came as a response to the tearful pleas of the man whose seven-month-old experiment to humanize Communism had prompted the Soviet invasion. On his return the week before from three days of negotiations in Moscow, Party First Secretary Alexander Dubċek told the Czechoslovak people that their only sensible alternative was to submit to the Soviet will. Then, setting the example, he began the humiliating task of dismantling Czechoslovakia's short-lived freedom...