Word: teare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the middle, he has attempted to mediate, insofar as his position allowed, the differences threatening to tear the College apart. He has spent long hours--more than most other administrators or Faculty -- in private and public discussion with students. All but those whose views were most diametrically and bitterly opposed to Glimp's emerged from such discussions feeling that the dean understood their opinions, even if he could not share them, and that Glimp considered his own views--as well as those of the students--open to continued discussion and debate...
...Paraguay, student unrest boiled up in the wake of Rockefeller's visit, when police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a demonstration at an engineering school. Rallying against police brutality, students at one point last week took over a church in Asuncion, and most of the country's high school and college students trooped out on strike...
...back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army also stocks mustard gas, a blistering agent that burns the skin and was widely used in World War I, plus such familiar riot-control agents as vomit gases, tear gas and its stronger version, CS. Also kept on hand for experimentation are small quantities of incapacitating gases designed to interfere temporarily with mental processes but not to kill...
...enemy used them first. Under State and Defense Department pressure in 1959, however, Congress refused to make formal the "no first strike" rule. Still, the U.S. has in effect forsworn any intention of initiating deadly chemical-biological warfare. The use of herbicides to defoliate Vietnamese jungles, plus tear gas and CS to drive the Viet Cong from their tunnels, has brought some criticism; yet the effects have been exceedingly mild compared with the potential of other available chemical weapons...
Then, secure from prying eyes, except for the undetermined number of police and press infiltrators dotted throughout the hall, the delegates were free to tear S.D.S. apart-mostly in barely endurable rhetoric larded with phrases like "the right of self-determination for internal colonies." The real issue was which faction will determine the future course of S.D.S...