Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...inflow of CIA agents onto the island, talk of militarism seems like a classic case of projection. The simple fact is that Cuba faces war with the United States. With the world's biggest military machine laying Asian countries flat and giving military aid ?? Haiti, Brazil, and Greece, scare stories about Cuban militarism are so much hypocrisy. Not many Cuban exiles seem too concerned about the militarism of General Abrams or General Dynamics...
...until there are 20,000 people in every city in the country ready to burn down banks and draft broads, ready to do anything, to end the war. Sadly, we are not yet that strong. Maybe no matter what we do we will not be able to scare Nixon into ending the war. But we can show him that the movement will grow larger and more destructive every day that the war continues...
...President grappled with a decision about further withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Communists last week launched a new offensive in South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao continued a threatening drive in Laos. Simultaneously, the North Vietnamese managed to scare the precarious new government of Cambodia. In the U.S., there are signs of reawakening dissent over the war. They have appeared in the U.S. Senate and at the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee and in such unexpected places as the Massachusetts legislature and Governor's office...
...Drug Scare. The prison population explosion is worrying the State Department, which calls it "a very important question." In many areas, it is rapidly becoming the prime concern of American diplomats. In Rabat, U.S. Consul Joseph Cheevers is besieged by requests for such items as antiscorbutic vitamin C, soap and blankets from American inmates of Morocco's dank jails (40 to a room). At the same time, he is handling twice as many requests for information from worried parents in the U.S. as he was a year...
...repeat of the classic 19th century panics, when brokerage houses went under in domino fashion, trading was suspended on the Exchange and Wall Street was crowded with frantic depositors trying to get their money from failing banks. But if the situation gets much worse, it could hurt some investors, scare others and provoke selling that would drive stock prices still lower...