Word: minutemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incipient Tragedy. Society has a duty to defend itself against private armies; there can be no argument that Panther arms caches should be broken up just like those of the Mafia or the Ku Klux Klan or the Minutemen. But because of the special history of injustice to blacks, there is incipient tragedy in the use of conventional police tactics against them. Besides, says Lou Smith, a black who heads Operation Bootstrap in Los Angeles, "the police don't use that kind of stuff on the Klan or the Minutemen. You don't find police shooting them down...
...critique released last week, the trio argued "In order to launch a first strike of the sort envisioned by Secretary Laird, the Soviets would need SS-9s with extraordinary accuracy and high reliability; they would need to solve the problem of coordinating an attack on our bombers and Minutemen; they would need to deal with our nuclear-armed tactical aircraft; they would need an effective antisubmarine-warfare system; and they would need a widespread ABM system. We find it unlikely that they will achieve any one of these capabilities, much less all of them...
...would then be defending with too little, too late," said Dr. John S. Foster Jr., assistant defense secretary for research and development. He contended that the Soviet Union's new SS9 missiles, now under development, could destroy all but 50 of the 1000 U.s. Minutemen missiles in the 1970's if the missiles were left undefended...
...always stood, as the apostle of the politics of fear and racism," cried the Vice President. "Some of his political managers and even some of his presidential electors are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils, the John Birch Society, the armed Minutemen, or groups dedicated to the promotion of anti-Semitism." Humphrey was just warming up. He called Wallace a demagogue and compared him to Hitler. "He has sought to inflame fear, frustration and prejudice," he said. "He pretends to be the friend of the workingman, but he is the creature...
...solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza area because he was moving towards a detente with both Cuba and the U.S.S.R...