Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown began when cops tear-gassed and whipped 800 high school students protesting a trolley-fare hike. The brutality brought out the university students next day. Alarmed, the government canceled the fare hike, but 1,000 students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
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...financed Wisconsin polls show Kennedy far ahead of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. If Humphrey picks up support before spring, Kennedy will take him on, hoping to knock him out of the running in his own backyard. If Humphrey does not get off the ground Kennedy will force no showdown in Wisconsin...
...expectancy, of bringing off fruitful negotiations at the summit. Other NATO partners were prepared to talk at the summit, but - thanks largely to Khrushchev's retreat from his original "either or" ultimatum - were in no mood to yield easily. No longer so fearful that a real ultimatum showdown with Russia was at hand, they felt less need to make a parade of unreal unanimity...
...South is not likely to take this step unless it is forced into it, and the Democratc party is probably not going to encourage disunity. But both sides are now preparing for another Civil Rights showdown. Northern and Western Democrats vow that they will demand that everybody sign an electoral "loyalty oath"--and the South is planning not to sign. 1960 is still far away, and a great deal depends on the progress of integration in the South. At the moment however, all signs point to at best an unfavorable compromise for the South, and at worst a party split...