Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czechoslovakia [Sept. 20] "hardly exact, since the U.S. intervened in Viet Nam in order to rescue an established government from subversion while the Soviets invaded a friendly neighbor in order to undermine a government that was struggling to gain a measure of independence and freedom." Yet I'm sure the Soviets feel that they are the ones who are rescuing an established regime from subversion, and that it is the U.S. who is undermining a struggle for independence. It is not surprising that uninvolved observers see a similarity between the two interventions. In both cases, armed force has been...
Most Americans are not even sure what they want the police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places...
...avoided by granting the demonstrators' legitimate demands, such as rallying in parks, and smothering the affair in a soft blanket of civic disinterest. This takes official determination to forget the High Noon syndrome, ample communication with demonstration leaders and masses of calm cops who flood the premises, making sure that any violence is committed only by small groups of isolated, discredited protesters. When 25,000 anti-Castro Cubans wanted to picket the Republican Convention, for example, Miami Beach Police Chief Pomerance quietly diverted all but 75 to Miami Stadium and carefully cooled off his frazzled men in a special...
...sure starter in the Tufts game is George Gibson at goalie; and even that is definite for only the first game...
...assembled a "Handbook for Doves" yet, but The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam should make the task infinitely easier. It is a quiet book. It does its work methodically and dryly, with a sure but muffled sense for the dramatic...