Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, David Ben-Gurion, himself an Eastern European from Plonsk in Poland, fears that a sharp shift in influence away from the more sophisticated Westerners will arrest Israel's surging economic growth. Last month he appointed a commission of demographers, sociologists and doctors to see what could be done either to reverse the population trend or to prevent Israel from stagnating under the dead weight of a semiliterate majority. The commission's most obvious recommendation will be to improve the nation's patchy educational system. In the universities, Afro-Asians account for a scant...
...Martin Luther King and his Negro followers have had plenty of armchair support from Northern whites. Last week came more impressive backing-an act of belief. Asked by Dr. King to join in a prayer vigil in Albany, 75 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic laymen and clerics submitted to arrest and jail for praying on behalf of the cause of desegregation...
...Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only at 3 p.m., five hours after the session started, when North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton Young, still wearing his windbreaker, arrived from a Virginia golf course to round out a quorum...
...forlorn, claiming that his health would be impaired if the hearings continued, Stonehill, 44, offered to leave the Philippines voluntarily−a move that would permit his eventual return. But Macapagal wanted no part of Stonehill now or in the future. At week's end he ordered his arrest and immediate deportation as an undesirable alien...
...choice they make. Says Southern Regional Council Executive Director Leslie Dunbar: "They just haven't learned to cash in on their power yet. It doesn't make any sense in cities like Atlanta, where Negroes have strategic power, to wait until 1962 till Negro policemen can arrest whites." But at least there are Negroes on Atlanta's police force-and the Negro's vote put them there...