Word: siding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballistic-missile submarines, bombers and ABM systems are abandoned, with all nuclear weapons removed from fighters based on land and on aircraft carriers. Each side retains 1,000 ICBMs with MIRV warheads, thus achieving a precisely even face...
...anniversary, crowds in Wenceslas Square clashed with police and troops, who seized on the mildest provocations-even catcalls or whistles-to beat demonstrators and hose them with water cannons. As the crowd around the equestrian statue of St. Wenceslas grew in size, ten armored personnel carriers inched slowly from side streets. "They can't be ours?" a secretary asked incredulously as she emerged from a building. People tried to escape into shops and hotels. At the doorway of the House of Food, Prague's leading delicatessen, a jittery cop shot a man in the foot. Bystanders were outraged...
...crowds in the square were twice as large. As 10,000 Czechoslovaks, curious tourists and journalists milled about in the afternoon sunshine, the armored personnel carriers and water cannons appeared again. Without warning, the police suddenly began lobbing tear gas into the crowd. As people fled down side streets in panic, the cops pursued them, truncheons flailing. Before the streets finally emptied late that night, 320 people had been arrested and two killed...
Emboldened, the crowd in Wenceslas began shouting, "Husák is a traitor, Husák is a traitor!" In response, police lobbed tear-gas grenades. As people fled the square, the side streets were quickly blocked by troops. Bands of helmeted police waded into the fleeing demonstrators, indiscriminately clubbing young and old alike...
Outside the White House last week, a group that called itself Concerned Citizens of Rochester marched with a 7-ft. poster bearing the words: Biafra Postcard. Staring out from the poster with baleful, bulgmg eyes was a starving child, his ribs protruding and his limbs shriveled. On the reverse side was a message urging President Nixon - who was not at the White House but in California - to act on the concern he voiced during last year's presidential campaign for the Biafrans' plight...