Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Spock served simultaneously as a spokesman for SANE and co-chairman of the National Conference for New Politics, "a group that has denounced Israel as 'imperialist,' that has come out in support of 'wars of national liberation,' no matter what their political character or threat to world peace, that has contemptuously dismissed the democratic process and allowed itself to be manipulated by spokesmen for crudely nationalistic views." In a separate protest, every officer of SANE's Northern California regional office resigned over the same basic issue...
...yellow-peril charge, Rusk went to the unusual length of issuing a formal statement to challenge the accusation. "The Secretary wholly repudiates the effort to put into his mouth or into his mind the notion of the yellow peril," the statement began. His comments on the looming threat of a nuclear-armed China, it added, "have nothing to do with race...
...Fairfield University and Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene V. Rostow during a regional foreign-policy conference in Lawrence, Kans. Even Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman ventured into the relatively unfamiliar field of foreign policy. In Syracuse, he declared that Asian leaders "are desperately concerned over the Chinese threat" and "almost without exception back what we are doing in Viet...
White-thatched Judge Cox, a native Mississippian and confirmed segregationist, conducted the trial with scrupulous fairness. Reacting angrily to a bomb threat-explosives had been stolen from a Meridian construction company the week before-the judge bundled Price and convicted Defendant Alton Wayne Roberts off to jail without bond. "I'm not going to let any wild man loose on a civilized society," he lectured Roberts. Roberts, a swarthy, former nightclub bouncer, had said earlier that the judge had given a "dynamite charge" to the jury. "Well," Roberts was overheard telling Price, "we've got the dynamite...
Chinese troops still rumble along the Himalayan frontier, and occasional Pakistanis still talk of another round over disputed Kashmir. But for all that border belligerence, India faces a far more dangerous internal enemy. Famine is a perennial threat to the country's swiftly expanding population. This year only a record harvest augmented by huge shipments of American grain prevented mass starvation. But former Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam sees signs of hope. His country's agricultural skills are improving, he told the World Food Crisis Committee in Washington last week, and there is a real chance that...