Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most witnesses felt that the Angels had drawn first blood; the tortured ethic of the hassle dictates that the man who goes for his hardware last loses face. Most present also believed that the Angels were not expecting a ruckus, or they would not have been outnumbered 6 to 1. If that is true, the Angels showed much better reactions than the cops, who had been forewarned by a federal narcotics agent. When the Breed rolled up to the hall, an off-duty patrolman immediately notified police headquarters, and two dozen wagons and cars full of police were dispatched...
...ruckus tended to obscure the real issue. What is actually under attack -and at stake in Laos-is Nixon's whole Indochina policy. The thrust into Laos represents a huge gamble. Yet there has been a growing sense in the White House in recent weeks that perhaps, just perhaps, the U.S. may be able to pull off not only a successful withdrawal from Indochina but some form of victory as well. That victory would be based on the ability of a South Vietnamese government to survive without large-scale U.S. help and like South Korea after 1954, to hold...
...elected." Behind that blase front, G.M. management has been more concerned than it has ever admitted by insistent charges that it does not show enough social responsibility. The charges have been leveled primarily by Ralph Nader and his followers in "Campaign G.M." The workers in Campaign G.M. raised a ruckus at the last annual meeting and are now ready to begin soliciting proxies for the next one. But General Motors is not waiting. Last week the corporation elected a black to its 23-man board. He is the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who was once assistant pastor to Adam Clayton...
...positions of Vellucci and Donald A. Fantini have been the hardest to follow through the ruckus. Vellucci initially voted for Frisoli's appointment. At the November 24 meeting, however, he tried to slip through a motion, authored by Fantini and presented by Duehay, to begin processing the pending applications as soon as possible...
...Agriculture Organization. Italian troops stole the obelisk from the ancient Ethiopian capital at Aksum, and Mussolini had it set up in Rome. Ethiopians want it back, but the Italians have maintained that the shaft is too weak to be moved. Moreover, neo-Fascist extremists would probably raise a ruckus if Il Duce's trophy were taken away...