Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things went wrong right from the start. When General Soils visited one of the capital's garrisons to get its support, a startled guard heard his request and then sent him off to jail−where he still remains. Gonzalez, meanwhile, distributed manifestoes proclaiming the rebellion before it had begun. As it happened, President Rodriguez was one of the recipients of a copy. He quickly escaped to a friendly garrison 120 miles south of the capital, leaving his wife and five children behind in the palace...
...pragmatism" and "ruggedness." It continually impresses upon the people of Singapore their isolation and uniqueness as a tiny overcrowded island of predominantly Chinese people in a Southeast Asia which is predominantly Malay and Indonesian, thus playing on racial fears and chauvinism to win a measure of nationalistic support. A "garrison state mentality" is inculcated in the manner of Israel, which is a conscious model to those who call themselves "nation builders." The mind-set is reinforced by compulsory military service for males in an armed forces which receives as much as 30 per cent of the annual government budget...
...premier industrial country in Asia-should take a more active military role in the Pacific. In order to demonstrate that it is not withdrawing from the Far East, the U.S. may have to undertake some kind of forceful, symbolic action. It will certainly have to maintain its garrison, including the 40,000 men in South Korea...
...take back to the people some real life activity, something concrete," says a blond-haired student from Texas. A girl sent by the San Francisco State College Senate tells the conference, "This will give us the proper platform to go back and build and build and build." Jim Garrison, NSCAR's Michigan organizer, thinks the people have come here for "an action program," and that the march will be a "springboard" for future action. He's been an activist for seven years, and like Greg Johnson, a cottony-voiced black who sees this as "an experience oriented, people movement...
...agent and present investigator of the organization tell a journalist who had covered the Clay Shaw trial in New Orleans that the CIA was very interested in the case because Shaw was a high ranking CIA operative? (Shaw was a New Orleans businessman accused by city District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy. He was eventually acquitted and Garrison himself became the target of a federal corruption Investigation...