Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful boredom and the hankering for free goods were the principal factors behind the looting, life returned to normal just as euphoria follows fever. Asked why Youngstown, Ohio, was simmering down, Negro teen-agers laughed: "We got social plans for the weekend, and we don't want a curfew ruining...
...TACTICS. ARVN has tended to be defensive-minded, interested only in setting up a perimeter and then sitting back inside it and waiting. ARVN soldiers did little night patrolling, fought the war on a five-day week, with officers whipping off to Saigon for the weekend. In the populous Mekong Delta, local ARVN commanders were suspected of occasional "accommodations" with their Viet Cong counterparts, aimed at preserving the status quo and holding the fighting to a minimum. In this area Abrams sees notable improvement. Of ARVN's 149 maneuver battalions, he regards only nine as really unsatisfactory any longer...
...ground, on 7th Street and on 14th Street, what looked like cool smoke to the office-workers was hot fire to the blacks, the cops, and the firemen. Before the weekend was out, there would be 851 fires in Washington. Damage would be estimated at 13.3 million dollars. 645 buildings would be destroved, including 212 residential units. Ten persons would be killed, more than 1000 arrested. But on Friday afternoon, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, things were just beginning...
WALTER WASHINGTON, the short, round Negro mayor of the city, finally appeared on television at 1:25 a.m., told everyone to calm down, said that things were being taken care of. Mayor Washington was locked up all weekend with his aides. He did not walk around the city as John Lindsay did in New York, and his rides through the riot area were for the most part secret...
...bureaucrat and technician. He was not elected to office but appointed. As a result he has not been forced to keep in touch with the people of the black ghetto, and he has not kept in touch with them. They have never fully trusted him, and after the King Weekend, they will trust him even less...