Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago, while still studying in the U.S., I agreed with many Americans that America should stop the war and withdraw her troops from Viet Nam. Now, after coming back to Hong Kong and seeing at firsthand the Communist threat, which once nearly ruined this peaceful and free British colony, I changed my viewpoint completely. Most Americans never realize what other countries are going through under the influence of Communism. The war may take time, but after it is over, millions of Southeast Asians will appreciate the Americans for what they have done -while many Americans will be sitting...
...decision signaled a major switch in the emphasis of his campaign, although no change in Romney's thinking. All along he has said that the greatest threat to the U.S. could arise from within. Last week he merely redoubled the warning, coupling it with some of his strongest attacks yet upon Lyndon Johnson and his Administration...
...condition from the outside world. California's Labor Commission and the San Francisco Central Labor Council have heard depressing testimony from Chinatown residents about working conditions in the district. Last week, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,* labor opened a campaign of pickets, sanctions and the threat of boycott against eight Chinatown sewing shops and a contracting firm. Although the goal is not immediate unionization, the 25,000-member culinary workers union is waiting in the wings, and a labor spokesman called the drive "the opening gun in a campaign we hope will eventually end substandard wages...
...cities -a crisis that will not be solved with mere rhetoric or even the force of law. The Coalition's members gathered at Washington's Shoreham Hotel in full awareness that it will take a stupendous effort, financial as well as philosophical, to meet the gravest internal threat to the nation since the Depression. Their differences forgotten, the cross-section of American leadership offered the most clear-cut program yet devised for the ills of the cities...
...with fortress-like slits instead of display windows, especially designed to thwart brick throwers. To meet the Los Angeles situation, 108 California insurance companies have formed a $15 million, assigned-risk "Watts pool" that has insured more than 500 merchants against fire and riot damage-though not against the threat of theft that such businessmen face daily. Similar plans are likely to emerge in both Newark and Detroit...