Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally agreed to give two-thirds of it to Bedford-Stuyvesant if one-third could be used for a smaller version of the cafe at the proposed site. For this offer, Mr. Hoving accused me of holding out "a carrot on a stick" to Bedford-Stuyvesant and causing racial unrest. There the matter now stands...
Despite the unrest, however, the society is far from disintegrating. It has a staff of 250-more than that of the Republican and Democratic national committees combined-at its Belmont, Mass., headquarters and at regional offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, Dallas and Los Angeles. Some 75 full-time field coordinators and 1,100 section leaders direct the society's chapters throughout the U.S. And though John Rousselot, the former California Congressman who serves as the Birchers' public relations director, admits that the growth in membership has slowed down, the society is still attracting new members. It officially...
...Harlem and Watts riots, but that is little cause for congratulations or complacency. Each week for most of the summer, the nation has been plagued by a dizzying number of simmering racial disturbances, any one of which might explode into massive proportions. Last week was one of particularly widespread unrest...
...reminded of the fact. Fortnight ago, he abruptly closed down a satirical magazine that had dared to poke fun at his walrus mustache. He was even angrier over the grumbling at the University of Buenos Aires, long a hotbed of Communist and far-left activity. Fearing mass student unrest, he accused all nine state universities of "subversive action," wiped out their traditional autonomy, and put them under the control of the national Ministry of Education. That night, police moved onto university campuses, throwing tear gas and swinging clubs and rifle butts...
...Negro's legitimate needs, there is hardly a major city in the U.S. that does not live with the fear of turmoil in the streets. Last week the train of death and destruction slashed deep scars in Cleveland, where Mayor Ralph Locher had ignored persistent warnings of Negro unrest, and scratched New York City, where Mayor John Lindsay had set a notable pattern of personal concern for ghetto residents...