Word: flags
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...there has been an effort to enlist war veterans in the Guard for one year. The reasoning is that these men can best provide instruction for the Guard's men in the use of their weapons. But these men will also harbor a severe hostility toward war protestors and flag burning demonstrators. That bias will be part of their instruction also. It will contribute, more than anything the Vice-President says, to heating up the tempers in the streets this summer. What can result is not predictable...
...vengeful hardhat attacks upon youthful peace demonstrators a fortnight before, this rally was carefully organized by the Building and Trades Council of Greater New York, which had announced that its aim was to help laborers show their "love of country and love and respect for our country's flag." Leaders of the participating unions, which included plumbers, bricklayers, steamfitters and ironworkers, had warned against violence. About 3,800 cops, some of whom had blithely watched the earlier beatings, sealed off city hall from the demonstrators and patrolled the march. The mood was tense, not angry. Mayor John Lindsay...
Full Pay. But mainly the polychromatic rally, with its shimmering flow of blue, red, green and yellow hats amid thousands of American flags, was a festive affair, accenting the positive in a kind of workers' Woodstock. Banners proclaimed GOD BLESS AMERICA and the demonstrators chanted, "All the Way with the U.S.A.!" Martial music, including From the Halls of Montezuma and The Caissons Go Rolling Along, rekindled the World War II spirits of middle-aged workers. Flag-waving demonstrators clung precariously to the uncomfortable tops of moving concrete mixers...
...Cambodia. Last week, however, it sometimes seemed as if the place were being overrun by men from Saigon. No fewer than 20 South Vietnamese military men checked into Phnom-Penh's Hotel Royal and set up a sophisticated communications center in Room 30. The red and yellow flag of South Viet Nam flew from the portico of a two-story building where Saigon last month established its first diplomatic mission since Sihanouk severed relations seven years...
...Brandt delivered his opening remarks, an aide handed Stoph a note reporting that an East German flag had been torn down from a flagpole by demonstrators. Obviously prepared, Stoph rudely interrupted Brandt and read a typed statement protesting his treatment. Brandt, ruffled, continued his speech, spelling out his familiar proposal for closer economic and cultural ties between the two Germanys. Then, in a dramatic gesture, he recommended that Bonn and East Berlin exchange representatives of ministerial rank, and that both Germanys seek separate representation in international organizations. His only condition was that both Bonn and East Berlin continue to regard...