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239 “for my family’s needs and my taste.” Dubcek, Hope Dies Last, 151.
239 “solving important problems.” Schwartz, Prague’s 200 Days, 90.
239 thought were unacceptable responses. Time, March 22, 1968.
239 “too late, to put the breaks on?” Paris Match, March 23, 1968.
240 “custom of male kissing.” Dubcek, Hope Dies Last, 101.
240 “harm they are causing me?” MlynárNightfrost in Prague, 103.
241 they staged one that lasted for hours. Schwartz, Prague’s 200 Days, 120–22.
241 several innocent people was about to be revealed. Ibid., 123.
242 “and that is democracy on recall.” The New York Times, May 6, 1968.
243 I have no apartment, Schwartz, Prague’s 200 Days, 144.
244 they had been forewarned. The New York Times, May 11, 1987.
245 “both official hits of the time.” Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias, 230.
246 Brubeck “with a touch of bossa nova.” The New York Times, May 28, 1968.
246 Clive Barnes’s review. Ibid., May 6, 1968.
246 psychedelic rock band posters. Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias, 233.
247 5 percent said they wanted capitalism. Jaroslaw A. Piekalkiewicz, Public Opinion Polling in Czechoslovakia, 1968–69: Results and Analysis of Surveys Conducted During the Dubcek Era (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972), 4.
247 7 percent said they were dissatisfied. Ibid., 34.
248 to argue against invasion. Jiri Valenta, Soviet Intervention in Czecho-slovakia 1968: Anatomy of a Decision (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 66–70.
249 lists of people to be arrested. Schwartz, Prague’s 200 Days, 178.
250 although sometimes a bribe would help. The New York Times, May 5, 1968.
250 “the right place to be this summer.” Ibid., August 12, 1968.
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255 “political rights of Negroes.” Bernard Diedrerich and Al Burt, Papa Doc and the Tonton Macoutes (Port-au-Prince: Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1986; original McGraw-Hill, 1969), 383.
255 killed or captured by Haitian army troops. Ibid., 380.
255 sentenced to death. The New York Times, August 8, 1968.
255 more dangerous than Vietnam. The New York Times Magazine, May 5, 1968.
255 Nixon would make the same point, Life, November 22, 1968.
256 within five years. The New York Times, July 24, 1968.
256 should give it all back. Paris Match, March 30, 1968.
256 Originally, such raids by Palestinians, Oren, Six Days of War, 24.
257 lost all connection to the outside world. Life, July 12, 1968.
257 It was reported that the Nigerian force, The New York Times, May 27, 1968.
259 white ants for protein. Time, August 2, 1968.
259 a new one dug for the next day. The New York Times, August 1, 1968.
260 “other airlines will join in.” Ibid., August 14, 1968.
260 on the European market. Time, August 9, 1968.
260 “Negroes are massacred . . .” Life, July 12, 1968.
260 “some starving white people to feed.” The New York Times, September 30, 1968.
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261 John Updike said, Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 15.
261 “Yippie! was really in trouble.” Abbie Hoffman (“Free”), Revolution for the Hell of It (New York: Dial Press, 1968), 104.
261 not given to admiring, Hayden, Rebel, 244.
262 as a frightening bad omen. Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life and Times, 346.
262 expected it to be himself. Ibid., 276.
262 told historian Arthur Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 895.
262 Romain Gary, Le Figaro, June 6, 1968.
265 “leaderless and impotent.” The New York Times, March 22, 1968.
266 “on that particular statement.” Ibid., May 22, 1968.
266 By June a petition drive, Ibid., June 2, 1968.
266 “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” Reader’s Digest, April 1968.
267 “dullest convention anyone could remember.” Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 15.
268 news of Martin Luther King’s assassination. The New York Times, October 6, 1968.
268 “cruel and unusual punishment.” Jack Gould, The New York Times, August 9, 1968.
CHAPTER 16: Phantom Fuzz