Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...aftermath of the vote was reassuringly normal. Young blacks snake-danced happily in Newark's streets, where, in the 1967 riots, young blacks had lain dead. Inside, a mostly black, mostly middle-class crowd partied for hours. His celebrators stopped cheering long enough for Gibson to tell them that, as he had said throughout his campaign, he would now turn to reconciliation and the desperately needed improvement of Newark's municipal services. "When Robert Treat founded the city of Newark over 300 years ago," Gibson said, "I am sure he never and you never realized that some...
...troops, managed periodically to pry open enemy roadblocks on some of the routes. But the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, using their familiar hit-and-run tactics, often closed them down again a few miles away. Most residents of Phnom-Penh unconcernedly continue their daily lives at the normal slow and smiling pace. They are intrigued by all the newly visible artifacts of war, and many have taken to wearing pieces of military gear-anything from Red Chinese garrison caps to American cartridge belts -but are almost wholly unprepared for real trouble. That could change rapidly. "If the Viet...
...possibility that because his subjects were predominantly Irish-with a legendary thirst for suds-the salubrious effect of the beer therapy might have been enhanced a certain amount. But he found that if old men, although defined as mentally ill, are given the chance to play a normal social role, they will eagerly respond, and symptoms of senility and mental illness are diminished...
...Cloud's expulsion," said Murray Gart, Chief of Correspondents, "is an arbitrary and highly irregular act that violates both the spirit and protocol of normal journalistic relations." Cloud served in the San Francisco bureau before going to Moscow, where he ably reported a wide variety of stories on subjects ranging from Soviet space shots to the policymakers in the Kremlin...
...more than a month, Rumania has been gripped in a struggle with the rising waters of the Danube and its tributaries. Last week, as the river crested at ten feet above its normal level, all but two of the country's 39 districts were either partially or totally inundated. Though emergency sandbagging kept the flood away from Bucharest and the big steel plant at Galati, Rumania has already suffered more property damage than during all of World...