Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, were not wholly to blame. Most are young, inexperienced "weekend warriors," incapable of handling what some officials are now calling "urban guerrilla warfare." Riot-control training barely exists; even military policemen in the Guard receive only one day of it. In New Jersey, where the Guardsmen's rough behavior brought a barrage of protests from Negroes, National Guard Major General James F. Cantwell conceded that the time had come for special training. "It is apparent," he wrote in a letter to the Secretary of the Army, "that there is a need for an immediate re-examination...
...special national riot-control police to cope with such violent disorders as Detroit's-most notably France's Compa-gnies Republicaines de Securite, which usually lurk a block or two from the scene of the anticipated action, and move in if the local flics, who are pretty rough customers themselves, with their 6-ft. batons and leaded capes, prove unable to manage. Wilson suggests that the U.S. may soon find that it needs similar professional forces-possibly organized by the states, but more probably a federal force deployed in various urban areas-able to move swiftly and break...
When the mysterious object disappeared a few minutes later, the shaken men returned to the restaurant, where they drew rough sketches of what they had seen. "I was kind of skeptical about these flying saucers being real, but you couldn't convince me otherwise now," says Overton. "I know what...
...that the controversy surrounding it has died down, The War Game can be judged on its own merits as one of the growing number of pacifist films. And it ranks with the best of them. Like Resnais' Night and Fog it uses documentary-like, rough-grained footage as well as rapid cutting between past, present and future. We see a real statement from a church council supporting nuclear war. Then a close-up of the terrified face of a nurse saying, Their bodies are just falling apart. A young couple carrying their son, who has been blinded by the glare...
...their arguments." In history and memoir, which fortunately occupy the bulk of the book, Hilsman is pungent and direct in his appraisal of men and events. Defense Secretary McNamara is described as "almost totally lacking in self-doubt," former CIA Director John McCone as a man with "a rough and ready sense of decency" that redeems his "streak of the alley fighter...