Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diem government, the crackdown obviously seemed necessary to protect the regime-and enforce the law of the land-against Buddhist defiance. But it was brutal, nonetheless, and it aroused a strong new wave of sympathy for the Buddhists. It also put U.S. policy in South Viet Nam, which involves the lives and safety of 14,000 U.S. troops, into an agonizing dilemma. While often unhappy with Diem, the U.S. has proceeded on the assumption that it was safer to stick with him than risk the chaos that might surround a switch to a new, unknown and unpredictable regime...
...calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing M1 rifles as they advanced, overran the temple, snatched the smoldering coffin away, and smashed a statue of Gautama Buddha. From the temple's treasury they took an estimated $30,000 and left the pagoda a gutted ruin...
...enlist Scotland Yard's help in the train robbery until nearly a day after it happened. What worries many experts is that such built-in inefficiency can only cost Britain's bobbies what remains of their old prestige. As it is, they are fighting the greatest crime wave in the nation's history with insufficient manpower and inadequate coordination, amid deepening public distrust that suggests their lot will be unhappier...
During his hour-and-a-half speech, with time out for fortifying sips of port, Salazar appeared decrepit but sounded vigorous. Because of a wave of "black racism," he complained, Portugal's "civilizing mission" in Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique is in jeopardy. Asked Salazar: "Is the language that we teach those people superior to their dialects or not? Does the religion preached by the missionaries surpass fetishism or not? Is not belonging to a nation of civilized expression and world projection better than narrow regionalism without means for defense or progress...
...lack of business, its big stores drew slim responses from their ads, and payrolls were down by at least $1,000,000 a month. The six counties around Tampa are suffering from a strike against the General Telephone Co. of Florida -a strike with a bitter difference. In a wave of vandalism and sabotage unmatched in Florida's history, the 356,000 telephone subscribers in the area are gradually being cut off from each other and the outside world. As many as 59,000 phones at one time have been knocked out by sabotage, and most of Tampa...