Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outraged Tories rose in Parliament to defend not only their bar facilities but their honor, accusing Duffy of committing a "breach of privilege" -an act of disrespect to Parliament itself. Laborites and Tories joined in passing Duffy's indiscretion to Parliament's Committee of Privileges, no doubt mindful of George Bernard Shaw, who observed 50 years ago in Major Barbara that it is, after all, whisky that "enables Parliament to do things at 11 at night that no sane person would do at 11 in the morning...
Later Chou had Kosygin to lunch and dinner. Under the circumstances, it was unlikely that the two leaders made much progress toward healing the Sino-Soviet breach or diluting Peking's opposition to Moscow's planned world Communist conference. The Chinese announced merely that a "conversation" took place...
...Standards. Cox was arrested, convicted and sentenced to four months in jail and fined $200 for breach of the peace. He got five months and a $500 fine for obstructing public passages, one year and a $5,000 fine for picketing a courthouse-all to be served cumulatively, for a total of 21 months in jail and $5,700 in fines. Louisiana's highest court upheld the convictions...
...incident, Justice Arthur Goldberg said that "the students were wellbehaved throughout." What the police feared, he added, was white reaction; their paramount duty was to protect rather than attack the peaceful Negroes. Out went Cox's first conviction, by unanimous vote-along with Louisiana's "unconstitutionally vague" breach-of-the-peace statute...
...strikes, ultimatums, and the rest of the tactics perfected in revolutionary situations and introduced for the first time in the United States into a university context; (4) that the injection of foreign elements into the dispute -- viz., the Teamsters' Union, CORE -- has aggravated the difficulty and represents a serious breach in the jealously protected autonomy of the University from outside or sectarian influences; (5) that the force and outside pressure in this case may well set a precedent for similar action to far more dubious ends; (6) that in short, the Berkeley revolt represents the most serious assault on academic...