Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk peace with any Arab leader who would listen. "I hope that my outstretched hand will not be spurned by those who have the power to accept it," he said. Then he vowed that if rebuffed, "Israel is capable of taking care of itself." On that, there is no argument...
...Badge. In neighboring Alabama, trouble was triggered not by shooting but by shouting. Black Power Prophet Stokely Carmichael started it with a wild argument at a voter registration meeting in Prattville, a reputed Ku Klux Klan stronghold ten miles from Montgomery. Stokely's target was Prattville Assistant Police Chief Kenneth Hill, who shot and killed a Negro early this year during a jailbreak attempt after a mistaken arrest for murder. When Hill showed up at the meeting, Carmichael yelled: "Take that tin badge off and I'll take care of you myself!" After getting reinforcements, the cops arrested...
...rest of the delegates. The Arabs, after all, have for 19 years insisted that they were in a "state of war" with Israel, and were clearly massing for their own first strike from the Sinai when the war began. The Russians will probably find more support in the argument that Israel's victorious armies should pull back to their own frontiers...
...persistence of the Arab attitude is perhaps the strongest argument for Israel's need to protect itself. Since the U.N. has shown its inability to protect them, Israelis argue that they can give up the real estate they deem essential to their security only if the Arabs agree to peace-and to reality, transported to Suez and released, to go home. Some also got food and water from the desert's Bedouins-if they were willing to pay their fellow Arabs...
...being so, the Supreme Court could only interfere if there were no rational basis for the state's treating interracial marriage differently from other marriages. Since scientific evidence on that point is in doubt, contended attorneys for Virginia, the court should not intervene. Chief Justice Warren swept the argument away almost contemptuously. "There can be no question," he wrote, "but that Virginia's miscegenation statutes rest solely upon distinctions drawn according to race. We have consistently denied the constitutionality of measures which restrict the rights of citizens on account of race...