Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish leaders and Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers assured them that "this Administration has rejected Soviet attempts to get the Israelis to withdraw from the occupied territories before a settlement is achieved." Unsatisfied with that, one Jewish leader angrily warned: "Don't think you can get our support, Mr. Secretary, for any kind of imposed settlement now being cooked up." Flustered and angry, Rogers ended the meeting. Word drifted back to the Jewish community that both he and President Nixon were "vexed" that their word had been challenged...
...because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution; and the so-called Pragmatists, which now encompasses only Chou and Li Hsien-nien. The key factor in the changes is the rise to power of military leaders who do not necessarily favor Lin and his slavish support of Mao's all-out radicalization. With Chou's moderate faction hit hard, the new army types are expected to take over Chou's old job of tempering Maoist extremism...
Once again it was Okinawa Day in Japan, and the students were ostensibly demonstrating their support for the return of the U.S. -occupied Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, to Japan. In fact, the demonstrators' slogans paid scant heed to Okinawa, concentrating in stead on anti-Premier Sato and anti-U.S. posturing. For the 300 Okinawans who had come to Tokyo to hold their own restrained protest - and who felt that their interests were what was at stake - the day was sobering. "I'm afraid the student violence will end up dampening the movement for us," said 20-year...
...race of suspects unless the crime is racially motivated (Black Panthers assaulting whites, for example). But the editor of the News, Martin Hayden, argues that most crimes are committed by "underprivileged, undereducated and deprived youngsters from the slum ghetto." Pointing that out, he contends, may persuade whites to support programs to help black youth and cause "reasonable black people to realize that there is a racial aspect to the current crime problem...
...riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from a police bus." Whimsically, he records his dutiful trip to Washington in June "for the rich people's march in support of the Poor People's Campaign. You are supposed to come away from these affairs with a renewed commitment and a sense of purpose. I came away with two girls' addresses and a slight...