Word: block
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Some of these tactics sound far out, but they seem to be working. Although Mississippi judges frequently sentence Negroes to death for rape and murder, a determined group of lawyers has managed to block every Mississippi execution for close to three years, mainly on the basis of the contention that juries there are segregated. The A.C.L.U. and Legal Defense Fund have already obtained a restraining injunction in Florida that bars any executions until the suit is decided. A decision on the California injunction request is due this week. Since both sides in the Florida case have promised to appeal adverse...
...when the 1970 census will be available; worst of all, Congress refuses to allow the 800,000 residents of the District of Columbia to have local home rule or representation in the U.S. Congress to eliminate these voting inequities, but, so far, opponents have used procedural irresponsibility to block them...
...page ruling in a case involving the schools of Washington, D.C., in which 90% of the students are Negroes. "Racially and socially homogeneous schools," he declared, "damage the minds and spirit of all children who attend them-the Negro, the white, the poor and the affluent-and block the attainment of the broader goals of democratic education, whether the segregation occurs by law or by fact...
...warden, Harold Swenson, 58, a longtime associate in the federal system, quickly established a new climate. Knives and forks -hitherto forbidden as potentially dangerous weapons-joined spoons on the dining tables; fresh fruit appeared on the breakfast menu; shower rooms were placed at the end of each cell-block tier so that convicts could bathe daily instead of twice a week. Cheap transistor radios were put on sale. For the first time, maximum-security prisoners were allowed outdoors for recreation and supplied with pillows and mattresses instead of back-breaking straw ticks...
Stern Side. A burned-out cell block, still standing a decade after the riots, was replaced by a prisoner-built recreation building that has become the home of the Versatiles, an eight-man convict combo that performs at schools and other state institutions. Most important, the prison population has been reduced by 20%. Yet a truly professional administration also has its stern side. Guards, who had often snoozed in overstuffed chairs in the watchtowers, were now perched on high aluminum chairs and provided with M-l carbines and sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns in place of puny .22-cal. rifles...