Word: months
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to stage other mass rallies, and are worried about possible violence, dwindling funds and the probability that frigid weather will bring disappointing turnouts. "The first time around, a march is a gig-the second time, it's a drag," observes one analyst of the movement. This month's emphasis on low-key community efforts has yielded little publicity, although planned Christmas Eve prayer vigils around the country this week might do better. The Moratorium Committee has also decided to abandon plans to increase its activities by one day each month. Asked Marge Sklencar, one of its coordinators...
Snoopy Sweatshirt. Violence is a fact of life to the children of West 116th Street, but in the weeks just before his death, Walt had more than his share. Earlier this month, someone dropped a brick on his head, and the wound had to be stitched. A few days later he was hit by a car, suffering scratches and bruises. A week after that, he fell from a fire escape...
...unlikely setting of a fashion show staged early this month by the Yugoslav embassy in the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador Walter Stoessel managed to engage the interpreter of the Chinese embassy in a brief conversation. Between any other two men in the room, the encounter would have gone unnoticed. But as Stoessel and the interpreter chatted, other diplomats in the room looked on in surprise. For the first time in nearly two years, American and Chinese representatives had established direct contact...
...membership in the federal legislature, his last state function. Ten other liberals were also forced to resign, thus virtually completing the purge of deputies who remained loyal to Dubček. But the struggle is far from over. Some Czechoslovaks expect a bitter battle over economic issues next month, when the party's 135-man Central Committee, which is composed of 35% conservative extremists, holds its scheduled plenum...
Freddie fled into exile and died last month in London. The cause of death, said the coroner's report, was an extremely high level of alcohol in his bloodstream. The Kabaka's followers claimed he had been poisoned by Obote's agents and swore revenge. Outside the stadium last week police seized a man who was thought to be one of the Kabaka's followers...