Word: vigor
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Behind Jones's and other black zealots' volte-face is a hard-won awareness that Negroes themselves take the heaviest casualties in any riot. Though he still promises to lash back with vigor if attacked by whites, Jones, currently appealing his conviction for possession of deadly weapons, is more interested now in achieving black power politically in his native city, where 52% of the 410,000 residents are Negro. As head of the new United Brothers of Newark, Jones said last week: "We are out to bring black self-government to this city by 1970, and the ballot...
...gained early notoriety as a Catholic controversialist with a 1964 article in the Saturday Evening Post called "Why I Believe in Birth Control," in which she argued that the church's ban on contraception was injurious to a healthy marriage. More recently, she has argued with equal vigor in favor of relaxing the church's ban on divorce and remarriage...
...rupted into pieces." The U.S. estimate of enemy combat deaths between Jan. 28 and Feb. 24 is 42,000. Hanoi did not mount a second wave of attacks, and probably would have been unable to do so if it wished. The Saigon government responded to the crisis with more vigor than many thought possible. Though General Vo Nguyen Giap may never have intended to take Khe Sanh, he mounted a convincing siege at considerable expense in casualties, but that bastion is now liberated (see THE WORLD...
...When it arrived, the column was surrounded by machine-gun-toting commandos, quickly withdrew when the fedayeen commander delivered a matter-of-fact announcement: "You have three minutes to decide whether you leave or die." The rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs for several thousand commandos. The Persian Gulf states, led by Kuwait, raise money for them through a 5% tax on the salaries of their tens of thousands of resident Palestinian workers, and a recent fund drive in Lebanon brought in $500,000 from Beirut...
...Wisconsin, the Johnson campaign, featuring Hubert Humphrey, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien, and HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, has been pressed with a new vigor, and an ample fund of national Democratic Party money. Before New Hampshire, such tactics would have looked like unfair bludgeoning of an unarmed opponent...