Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more radical action is necessary, the community ought to be ready to take it. It could escalate from simple demonstrations, like carrying picket signs to people blocking building sites. I could even imagine some kind of destruction of the construction site. But I don't think you should commit yourself to a strategy until you know what the situation...
...meeting of New England governors in Boston yesterday, all but one indicated their opposition to Nixon's decision. Gov. Francis W. Sargent, who is running for re-election this fall, said he "felt it regrettable that the President felt the need to commit U. S. troops to Cambodia...
...operations begun Wednesday in the "Parrot's Beak" region of southern Cambodia-described by Nixon as "exclusively South Vietnamese ground operations, under South Vietnamese command. with the United States providing air and logistical support"-will continue Nixon did not commit troops to the central area of Cambodia, which is also involved in conflict...
...June 8, 1967, on charges of carrying a gun in a state building during a Panther demonstration at the California Statehouse in Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation); on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were later dropped); once, in 1968. on conspiracy charges connected with the 1968 Chicago demonstrations (the case was declared a mistrial but Scale was given four years for contempt of court): and finally, on August 19, for murder, kidnapping, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...
...have never been able to figure out why children raised in homes with everything would become promiscuous, resort to drugs or commit violent acts. Whitney Young might possibly be right. Maybe, behind those "bland, sterile, antiseptic gilded ghettos" there really is a sickness, and someone should make a study of this to find out. He might discover that we need black America more than it needs...