Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Adam Clayton Powell kept New York in an uproar over whether he would return to Harlem from his Bimini exile on Palm Sunday. In the end, he disappointed his followers by deciding to tarry a while in his island sanctuary...
...organizations, which have set themselves the laudable task of bringing fair labor standards and union democracy to underdeveloped nations. Among the labor groups identified as agency dependents was the international division of the American Newspaper Guild. Oddly enough, press pundits could not seem to raise the same kind of uproar over CIA involvement in their own union as they did over its supposed subversion of youth...
...Institute of Politics helped illuminate more than one set of conflicts during the past year. When the Institute invited Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara for a two-day stay in Cambridge, it did not anticipate the uproar the Secretary's visit would cause. The confrontation on Mill St. resulted from more than mere disagreement over the war. The premise of all actions taken by Students for a Democratic Society was that students should have a larger role in determining what does and does not happen at Harvard...
...have become pacifistic to the point of violence, as they showed in the 1960 riots that canceled Dwight Eisenhower's visit. The Mutual Security Treaty between the U.S. and Japan comes up for renewal in 1970, and although Sato does not anticipate a repetition of 1960's uproar, he cannot afford to give ammunition to the Japanese left by committing his nation to open support of the U.S., let alone a combat role in what most Japanese consider should be an internal Vietnamese...
...chance to act on that belief came in 1947, when Sato was tapped for the Cabinet and supervised Japan's rise from the ashes of American bombing. Then, in 1953, he was accused of accepting a $55,000 bribe from shipowners, and in the uproar that followed, he resigned. Sato maintains to this day that the money was a political contribution and that he merely failed to register it according to the law. He returned to power after his former classmate Hayato Ikeda took over the Liberal Democratic leadership in 1960. Sato became Minister of Olympic Construction...