Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promotion of anti-Semitism." Humphrey was just warming up. He called Wallace a demagogue and compared him to Hitler. "He has sought to inflame fear, frustration and prejudice," he said. "He pretends to be the friend of the workingman, but he is the creature of the most reactionary underground forces in American life...
Some 300 Boston and Massachusetts police were on hand for the rally, but there were no serious incidents. Shortly after Wallace's departure, Joseph Mlot-Mroz, the ever-present Polish Freedom Fighter, was forced to flee into the underground garage beneath the Common after he attempted to wade into a rally of some two thousand anti-war demonstrators while carrying a Wallace sign
...dogs and, for that matter, a whole zoo of combat animals. They occasionally drop cats into tunnels and spider holes to divert allied scout dogs. They have been known to stampede water buffalo into American defensive wire and mines. They like to leave snakes and spiders in bunkers and underground complexes in order to keep U.S. troopers from investigating them. Not long ago, a Special Forces patrol came upon an ingenious booby trap that consisted of a basket filled with poisonous snakes. Its writhing contents would have cascaded on a man tripping the wire...
...Going Underground...
...next Moscow trial, four young people, including Intellectual Alexander Ginzburg, were charged with circulating underground publications. "I love my country," Ginzburg said, "and I do not wish to see its reputation damaged by the latest uncontrolled activities of the KGB." During the five-day trial, sympathizers gathered outside the courtroom. A letter to "world public opinion" condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering...