Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasser, his sponsorship of Saud is obviously part of his drive against all the more moderate Arab regimes symbolized and led by King Feisal. In Yemen, Nasser's cause is promoted by Sallal, who last week sent chanting mobs to stone the U.S. AID office in the city of Taiz. Displeased by the low level of U.S. economic assistance, Sallal arrested two U.S. officials on wild charges, said that they would be tried for attempting "to destroy" Taiz by firing a bazooka into an ammunition dump. The U.S. reacted by canceling its aid program and warning Sallal that...
...being tough presents its own problems and offers no universal solution. Many youth--including many Black stone Rangers--will gain nothing from extra police power. There are limits to the persuasiveness even of pain. Moreover, being tough often leads authorities to take some action which only makes things worse. Excessive force--"brutality" -- embitters Rangers. Similarly, they gain no great respect for the law when slapped with exorbitant bonds for minor offenses or when they wind up on the raw end of a police "deal" --exchanging their guns, for example, for reduced charges in court; only the charges...
Since 1962, archaeologists Cynthia Irwin Williams, of the Peabody Museum, and Juan Camacho of the University of Puebla, Mexico, have been excavating man-made stone tools and weapons found with the remains of long-extinct animals in Central Mexico...
...Bronx primaries will therefore be a very decisive mile-stone in Lindsay's career. If the Lindsay-oriented candidates succeed, the mayor will have proved that he can build a Republican party almost from scratch, fundamentally altering the political structure of the City. Lindsay will have succeded where LaGuardia failed, by breaking the Democrats' long and onchallenged hold on New York...
...rector, Bishop William J. McDonald, that the board had voted to fire him-whereupon virtually the entire 7,200-member faculty and student body walked out on strike. They would not return to classes, they said, until Curran was reinstated. Massing outside the rector's stone residence, priests and nuns stood alongside black-cassocked seminarians and hoisted placards quoting from Scripture-UNLESS YOUR JUSTICE EXCEEDS THAT OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YOU SHALL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. MATT...