Word: antiriot
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...measure contained other titles-two antiriot clauses and language safeguarding the constitutional rights of American Indians-but its crucial provision was for open housing, which will eventually help turn the lock to release Negroes from their imprisoning urban ghettos. Like other recent civil rights bills, the 1968 act carries the danger of promising too much and delivering too little, and reaction among Negro leaders was mixed. CORE's associate director Roy Innis sneered: "This is a hoax on the black people." Replied the N.A.A.C.P.'s Clarence Mitchell, who lobbied for the bill: "Anyone making such statements either...
South Carolina's Strom Thurmond added a stiff antiriot clause, seeking a five-year jail term and $10,000 fine for anyone who travels from one state to another with intent to incite a riot. At week's end, the Senate adopted the entire substitute package; a vote on final passage is due this week...
Expecting the Unexpected. If that didn't unsettle his basically conservative constituency (it is only 6% Negro), his votes last week to invoke cloture to end the civil rights debate and to defeat an antiriot measure undoubtedly did. But Harris' own Senate colleagues have come to expect the unexpected from the new-style Sooner, a tough-minded, blunt-and brave-political tightrope walker. After only three years in the Senate, Harris is already regarded as a possible future Democratic leader...
...also a cleverly crafted political package designed to put the President on the safe side of an issue that could overshadow all others by November. In it, he doubled earlier requests for aid to local crime-fighting units to $100 million, also reversed his opposition to an antiriot bill to punish those who cross state lines to incite strife. In addition, the message pledged the Justice Department's cooperation with state and local police. Said Johnson: "You don't have to remember any name except Clark-Ramsey Clark. He's the man to phone...
...signed a tough District of Columbia anticrime bill, which is only some what softer than a measure he vetoed last year on constitutional grounds. At that, this year's bill will doubtless be picked over meticulously in the courts. Among other things, the bill gives Washington a stiff antiriot code. While Johnson praised this provision, he questioned two others. One is a clause setting minimum sentences for certain crimes - rather than leaving sentences to the discretion of the court. The second is a provision that allows police to question a suspect for up to three hours before bringing...