Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Serpico is an excellent portrayal of the impossibility of one individual taking on an entire system. He is frustrated at every turn as he attempts to report the wide scale corruption he witnesses. No one, from his captain to the mayor's office, is willing to do more than warn him to be careful. Veiled threats turn quickly to violence, both in the movie and the real world. Institutions bear down mightly on dangerous individuals. Serpico illustrates some of the consequences of this process...
...speeches in town squares. The general's whistle-stopping seems to have three main goals: to build up a personal following directly with the masses, to remind the army that its loyalty should be to him and not to the revolutionary captains who led the coup, and to warn the anarchic left that he will use force if necessary to keep order. Some military officers are unhappy about Spinola's blatant power grab, but there is little that they can do about it, at least for the moment. Three weeks ago, when leaders of the Armed Forces Movement...
...time that the Soviet leaders have been pursuing détente internationally, they have embarked on an intensified program to prevent the thaw from reaching their own people. Ever since the Brezhnev-Nixon meetings began in Moscow two years ago, Soviet officials have conducted a massive "vigilance" campaign to warn ordinary citizens of the danger of closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home. No greater...
Fulbright criticized every President from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon for being too doctrinaire or too heavy-handed in his use of American power abroad. The Senator was one of the few to warn John Kennedy against trying to topple Fidel Castro by landing rebels at the Bay of Pigs, and he opposed the armed intervention by Lyndon Johnson into the confused affairs of the Dominican Republic...
Emboldened union leaders were threatening strikes against a number of big companies, including the privately owned National Steel Works. Civil servants were holding union meetings during working hours so frequently that the junta departed from its rhetoric of permissiveness long enough to warn that if such disruptions continued, they would be regarded as "insubordination against the Armed Forces Movement...