Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara's critics feel that he might have anticipated the problem on his own; after all, a dozen years ago Army officers foretold the difficulties of sus taining a major expeditionary force in Viet Nam as an argument against going to France's aid in the Indochinese...
...most telling argument for the Wolfenden rule is that the present statutes are unenforceable anyway as long as the homosexual acts are performed in private (many of the laws also prohibit the same acts between man and wife). In effect, the arrests that are now made are for public or semipublic acts, including "soliciting," with homosexuals often trapped by plainclothesmen posing as deviates. There is also a constant opportunity for blackmail and for shakedowns by real or phony cops, a practice known as "gayola." Advocates of the Wolfenden position argue further that persecution by society only renders the neurotic homosexual...
...former mayor of San Francisco, "except his complete and utter lack of qualifications." Says Laughlin Waters, former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and another moderate contender: "I'm all for on-the-job training but not at the gubernatorial level." Reagan has refused to be drawn into an argument with his fellow Republicans, says: "I will have no word of criticism for any Republican." He believes that California's G.O.P., which has yet to recover from the abrasions of its 1964 split over Goldwater, needs a candidate of unity -and that...
...before his death, he spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into an argument with Attendant Marvin Segrest, 67, with whom he had quarreled several times previously. Segrest went to a desk drawer, pulled out a gun, and fired twice. Younge fell dead with a .38 slug near his left...
...stir up agitation in school districts for local action," and yet confidently suggests that "the money that would be spent on large scale bussing programs could be put to better use to upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation aside, Mr. Koivumaki's argument fails to tell us how, without "stirring up agitation," school districts are to be forced to spend more in the ghetto. To an extent, the conservative penchant for order and calm muddies the logic of the article...