Word: marching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snappish note. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne told Carter three weeks ago that she would support him, according to John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but last week she announced her pledge to Kennedy. This gives the Massachusetts Senator an important advantage in the critical Illinois primary next March. Morris Dees, Carter's chief fund raiser in 1976, switched sides to join Kennedy. Said he: "I am not disaffected with President Carter, but philosophically I'm much more attuned to the views of Senator Kennedy...
Last month Viewpoint members passed out handbills inviting people to a "Death to the Klan" protest march on Saturday, Nov. 3, in a mostly black section of the city. The Maoist group urged the Klansmen to attend. Taunted March Organizer Paul Bermanzohn: "We invite you and your two-bit punks to come out and face the wrath of the people." The handbill described the Klan as "the most treacherous scum element produced by the dying system of capitalism...
...bright morning sun on Saturday, about 100 blacks and whites gathered for the anti-Klan march among the grimy brick duplexes in Greensboro's Morningside Manor housing project. Most of the demonstrators were dressed in jeans and blue work shirts; some wore hard hats. Suddenly a mustard-colored van and several cars pulled up. They were filled with Klansmen and supporters who shouted racial slurs. The marchers responded by beating on the cars with sticks...
...from using parts of the country as sanctuaries and resupply routes for their forces in South Viet Nam. The existence of these sanctuaries led the U.S. to launch what would become highly controversial secret bombing raids over Cambodia in 1969 and to invade the country the next year. In March 1970, while Sihanouk was in Moscow, he was ousted in a coup organized by Premier Lon Nol, an army marshal with mystical tendencies. Even with an infusion of U.S. supplies, Lon Nol proved unable to cope with the Vietnamese and the growing guerrilla army of the Khmer Rouge. The five...
Defense took over after that, and neither team mounted a consistent march until late in the fourth quarter...