Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. John William Elmer Thomas, 89, long-term Democratic Senator from Oklahoma (1926-1950), and vociferous spokesman for the Senate's pro-inflation bloc who early in the Depression vainly waged a campaign to force unlimited currency upon the nation, thereafter remained a cantankerous critic of Administration policies from public power to Marshall aid, was finally defeated in the 1950 primary by Congressman Mike Monroney shortly after being exposed for trading in the cotton commodities market; of pneumonia; in Lawton, Okla...
Last month, after guerrillas had killed nine rural policemen, the Haya-Odría bloc pushed through a bill that the army wanted: death penalty for convicted terrorists. Belaúnde signed the measure into law. But his critics still charged that he was not pursuing the terrorists hard enough, accused him of knuckling under to the leftists within his loosely knit party. The Haya-Odría bloc then demanded that the government join in outlining a fullscale, bipartisan program to eliminate the Communists. When Belaúnde balked, the opposition decided to call the Cabinet on the carpet...
Western Europe's prosperity is the result, as much as anything else, of the reduction over the past few years of commercial barriers between its countries. Though most of the Continent is split into two giant trading blocs-the six-country Common Market and the seven-country European Free Trade Association-trade among members of each bloc and even between the blocs has climbed to levels scarcely dreamed of only five years ago. Europe should be eagerly pressing ahead to whittle down the remaining roadblocks to greater trade and prosperity-but it is not. It is stalled...
...laws work, to let elections bring about the change implicit in all the stress on voting rights, to let the courts strike at anyone who discriminates in housing or jobs. This political weapon already feels good in the hands of many Negroes: those who form an effective voting bloc in Tennessee, those who have for the first time elected state legislators in Georgia. "The answer to police brutality," says the Rev. Milton Upton of the Negro Ministerial Alliance in New Orleans, "is the vote...
...Step in the Drive. The law was proposed in various forms by both Republicans and Democrats, but it was opposed most vociferously by a Democratic bloc of legislators from Boston, the city at which it is mainly aimed. "This bill," cried Boston Democratic Representative Paul Murphy, "is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation ever considered by this House...