Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, in Cochabamba, Bolivia's second biggest city, either police or pro-Paz campesinos fired into a mob of rioting students, killing one of the youths. That was all it took to trigger an open revolt by students, miners and agitators of every stripe. In mining centers, union radios crackled with calls for "popular rebellion" against "the bloody tyrant and assassin Paz Estenssoro." Lechin's well-armed miners fought pitched battles with government troops, and the first casualty reports told of some 50 dead...
...Trigger for the whole thing was the Housing Act of 1949, which authorized the Federal Government to pay cities for at least two-thirds of the difference between the cost of acquiring and clearing a blighted area, and the price the land brought when sold to a private developer. The act's chief aim was to clear slums, but it was quickly realized that slums were not all the city had to worry about. In successive broadening acts and amendments, the legislation has been expanded to finance the redevelopment of the heart of the city by authorizing clearance of land...
...almost an exact reversal of its 1960 margin for Richard Nixon. Of Connecticut's 169 towns, Johnson won all but eleven -a feat unmatched even by Roosevelt. While conservative on economic and domestic matters, New Englanders tend to be international-minded-and Goldwater's trigger-happy image hurt him there. So did his confused stance on social security, particularly since it was so publicly aired by Fellow Republican Nelson Rockefeller in the New Hampshire primary...
...plant and animal life that once inhabited these coral islands, a team of University of Washington radiologists, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, have made an extensive, five-week survey. They report findings that seem to suggest that if ever men are foolish enough to pull the nuclear trigger-and fortunate enough to limit the area of conflict-the earth may not become a wasteland after...
...enormous professional skill and savvy on the other qualified him even for the Supreme Command, which was eventually denied to him through the failure of his superiors to recognize and appreciate the intrinsic and overwhelming value of such a combination." But at another, he concedes that Patton's trigger temper and lack of political sophistication probably disqualified him for higher responsibilities. Patton botched his proconsul duties, first as the ruler of French Morocco in 1942-43, and later as Military Governor of Bavaria. He gave Eisenhower no choice but to ease...