Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behest, Queen Elizabeth suddenly commuted the death sentence of two Rhodesian blacks convicted of set ting houses afire and awaiting execution in a Salisbury prison. The hope was that the voice of the Queen would stir the fire of revolt in Smith's prison authorities, but that hope seemed faint at best. Shrugging off an official warning that executing the two "loyal subjects of the Queen" would be the same thing as murder, Smith made the obvious reply. Wilson, he charged, was trying to "embroil Her Majesty in politics," something that Prime Ministers do at a risk to themselves...
...France, where kids barely out of diapers often start taking a thimbleful of diluted wine, Chafetz' proposal would stir only some Gallic shrugs, but most Americans popped a gasket. Did he not know, asked one of his listeners, that drinking is illegal in most schools? The beverage laws, scoffed Chafetz, "are absurd." "Alert your school boards to the dangers of this program," cried Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, president of the W.C.T.U. Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, national president of the P.T.A., called the idea "outrageous." Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes, who freely admits to an alcoholic past, said...
...school bussing issue quite honestly, listed the pro's and con's on both sides, and opted against the technique. He is persuasive much of the time, slipping only once into a non-sequitur, He says that "it is not the role of the militant, transient, outside groups to stir up agitation in school districts for local action," and yet confidently suggests that "the money that would be spent on large scale bussing programs could be put to better use to upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation aside, Mr. Koivumaki's argument fails...
...guerrillas seemed to be everywhere-and in strength. A full regiment overran Ba Gia; another annihilated a Vietnamese battalion in Binh Duong province; a third captured the town of Dak Sut; U.S. Special Forces defenders were bloodied at Bu Dop and Due Co. Talk of neutralism began to stir the cities of the South as the fledgling military regime of Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky-the tenth Saigon government since Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in November 1963-shakily took power in June...
...more on the way. To supply them, the U.S. is not only building facilities at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam, but has also laid in a storage area at Korat with enough supplies to outfit a combat brigade-just in case Red China makes good its threat to stir trouble in Thailand's northeast. Thai-based U.S. planes are already operating out of Udorn, Ubon, Takhli and Nakhon Phanom to blast Red infiltration routes through Laos, bomb North Viet Nam, and conduct rescue missions for downed U.S. pilots...