Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving to calm the capital's residents, Mayor Walter Washington insisted most of the city was safe. But Washington, himself a Negro, approved a 30% increase in police patrols. He also asked Congress to make threats against businessmen a felony in Washington, and got swift approval. Congress took another action last week that may have an even longer-range impact: it increased the starting salary for the District's 3,100-man police force (23% black) from $6,700 to $8,000 as of July 1. Though Washington already has more police per 1,000 people than...
...managerial prerogatives and higher pay from the patronat?the owners?whose power has remained fairly unchallenged under Gaullism. But there is also likely to be a backlash from the conservative elements in the population ?the petits bourgeois, the landlords, the little businessmen?against the radical forces that demand swift changes. In this confrontation, the radical students themselves are likely to be targets of a sharp reaction, perhaps even from the more moderate elements in the student body that would prefer to study rather than riot...
...stodgy academic community and the massed roadblocks of commercial hypocrisy. Buckthorne's mortal fatigue may be the result of amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose is swift, precise and clever, and on the strength of it Rodney may be worth one final evening's visit before he is turned out to pasture...
...American MP floated Loan down the river under the protection of the floor boards of the docks and stilt-houses until he could be safely evacuated. Loan's deputy, however, died in action, as did the commander of Tan Son Nhut Airbase. But because of the remarkably swift reaction of the city's 50,000 government defenders. Saigon's civilian dead numbered only a few hundred, less than one-twentieth of those at Tet. And by week's end an estimated 2,500 Communists had died in their attempt to breach the capital's defenses...
...news that a column of Russian troops was moving from the Polish city of Cracow toward the Czechoslovak border, and Western military attachés and diplomats were suddenly forbidden to travel outside the capital. Another Soviet force was reported heading from Dresden in East Germany toward Czechoslovakia, whose swift-paced "democratization" has lately alarmed Moscow and hard-lining members of the Eastern bloc...