Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates last week, Mitterrand declared war on some of the general's pet policies. He said that as President, he would sign the nuclear test ban treaty, which "would mean canceling next year's South Pacific hydrogen-bomb test, move to heal the Gaullist-created Common Market breach in Brussels, and send French representatives to the Geneva disarmament talks that De Gaulle has long boycotted...
Clearly, the U.S. will have to adapt to the polarization of Communist politics if, as Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, has suggested, the Chinese eventually organize another Communist International, the breach will not be mended for a long time to come...
...constitutional command erects a wall of privacy that U.S. police cannot breach without a valid search warrant. But even so, the wall has gaping holes. Police are free to use evidence gained by peering in the locked windows of a private house; they can also plant electronic "bugs" on outside walls to record conversations inside. Unless they unlock the windows or pierce the walls, they need no warrant-for the moment at least, the line is drawn at actual physical intrusion...
Britain's war against France was in its fourth year-and France controlled most of Europe. At Brest, the French were assembling a formidable invasion force. In London, King George III, the Admiralty and No. 10 Downing Street did not worry much. What power could possibly breach "the nation's legendary wooden walls," the scourge of the oceans, the British fleet? Then, in the spring of 1797, the wooden walls began to come apart...
...student has just demonstrated a remarkable capacity for learning. Before the State Supreme Court were appeals by two Negro girls who tried to use an already integrated Greenville park in 1963. Threatened by whites and arrested for breach of the peace, the girls had been sentenced to $100 fines and 90 days in jail. Speaking for the court, Justice Brady reversed the convictions-and stoutly invoked the U.S Supreme Court as his authority...