Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orleans police shrewdly realized, closing down Mardi Gras because of inadequate police protection was their ultimate threat in negotiations with city officials-rather like canceling Christmas. For years the police had no muscle to back up such a threat, but this time Teamster officials came in, led by Joseph Valenti, a tough, cigar-smoking troubleshooter from Detroit. On Feb. 9, when Mayor Ernest Morial refused to deal with a Teamster-backed majority in the department, the police marched...
...west, as the bulk of the Chinese offensive doubled its penetration to ten or 15 miles, PLA infantry captured Lao Cai, a rail center of 100,000 on the Red River. To counter this threat to Hanoi, the Vietnamese marched north to engage the Chinese at Lang Son and Dong Dang...
With so obvious a propaganda advantage, the Soviet Union at week's end had essentially limited its counterattack against China to a fusillade of words. Pravda ventilated Soviet "wrath and indignation" at the Chinese aggression. Without making a specific threat, Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov reaffirmed that the U.S.S.R. "will honor its obligations under the treaty of friendship and cooperation with Viet Nam." Official press and radio also charged the U.S. with connivance in the Chinese attack. Emphasizing that the Chinese invasion was launched "almost the next day" after Teng Hsiao-p'ing's return from Washington, Pravda protested that...
...mutilation." Jones elaborates: "I never was one for sticking a pin in me nose." The Clash, though hardly elegant instrumentalists, makes far better crafted music than the Pistols ever did. The sheets of sound they let loose have the cumulative effect of a mugging, but the songs, full of threat and challenge, never mean to menace. They are, rather, about anger and desperation, about violence as a condition more than a prescription. Last Gang in Town, a fleet, bleak vision of the immediate future with London deeply riven by intramural combat between "rockabilly rebels," "skinhead gangs," "soul rebels" and "zydeco...
...bomb threat at the Hasty Pudding club early Sunday morning abruptly ended a large party given by members of this year's Hasty Pudding show...