Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...combat veteran of World War II, Wyche is married to a schoolteacher, and they have two grown children. He was a barber for 40 years, starting his career at the age of ten. But for years he wanted to be a cop; he is an avid Perry Mason fan. He plans to run for reelection, and blacks are filing for other local offices, including mayor. Whites are nervous at the prospect of black domination, but Wyche claims that he wants only a fair chance for blacks. Says he: "We got to prove to white people we can do a whole...
...build the kind of organization that can dispense with his services as soon as possible. Nor does he confine his tactics to the traditionally underprivileged. Although he has largely helped the very poor, he has begun to teach members of the alienated middle classes how to use power to combat increasingly burdensome taxes and pollution...
...pickup trucks. A former deputy (Don Stroud) is out to kill Price for sure, and the son of the county's millionaire political boss is in jail for manslaughter. Nothing will do, of course, except for the black sheriff and the white ex-sheriff to get together to combat the forces of racism and oppression...
...Combat Risks...
That presumption is not so much false as it is slyly misleading. It is like the similar case of Nixon pledging to end the war by withdrawing American combat forces from Vietnam. Both cases ignore important unstated realities. In the case of Nixon's plan to end the war, it is apparent that 200.000 support troops, advisors, flight crews in Laos and Thailand, and the Theiu government will remain for many years, and that the struggle for Vietnamese liberation will continue. Antiwar groups have attempted to educate the nation to that fact by confrontation tactics with mass demonstrations. When shifting...