Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Mrs. Power decided that 'local folks were getting overly fond of a 15-minute Sunday show sponsored by the American Conservative Club. Writing in the league's local bulletin, Mrs. Power declared: "The Dan Smoot TV program, literally right out of Dallas, Texas, is a skillful professional job of propaganda against-against the United Nations, against all foreign aid, against the income tax, against civil rights for the Negro. It is based on slanted information, half-truths, innuendoes, and sometimes worse...
...later bulletin, she apologized to Smoot "if we hurt his feelings," but the commentator was not moved. He slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit against Mrs. Power and three other league members, charging that he had suffered financial loss. He offered no specifics whatever, and he spent the next ten months playing possum with the court. Weary of endless pretrial conferences, Federal Judge Noel P. Fox in Grand Rapids finally ordered Smoot to post a $15,000 bond (he never has) to cover the league's legal fees if it could prove that Smoot's suit...
Albania gets a black mark for staging show trials of political opponents in the worst Stalinist tradition. Cameroun is condemned for banning opposition parties. Portugal is reprimanded for censoring its press. U.S. segregationists are denounced for flouting the U.S. Constitution. With Olympian impartiality, the quarterly Bulletin of the International Commission of Jurists attacks violations of human rights wherever it finds them...
...Ford Foundation, but largely out of the pockets of its own members, such as the chief justices of countries as diverse as Nigeria and Norway. At commission headquarters at 2 Rue du Cheval-Blanc in suburban Geneva, a staff of 35 hustles to publish not only the Bulletin but also the Journal and the Newsletter, with a combined circulation of 400,000 copies in four languages (English, French, German, Spanish). Paid only bare expenses, teams of jurists are dispatched in every direction; international congresses are organized in such places as Athens, New Delhi and Lagos. Next month: Bangkok...
Certificates for Christians. The Y goes out of its way to respect Jewish customs. Its restaurant is closed only one day a year, Yom Kippur, and bar mitzvahs are regularly reported in the monthly bulletin. Although the Moslem chef does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...