Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VULCAN'S city burned with resentment last week as it waited for U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to make good on his promise to call the federal grand jury to investigate a possible violation of civil rights by Birmingham's police force. Six weeks ago Birmingham's cops arrested three Negro ministers from Montgomery who were caught talking with local Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn...
...politicians. Military and businessmen partake of the "military metaphysic" for reasons of self-interest, claims Mills, for the politicians, it "provides a cover under which they can abdicate the perils of innovative leadership; it provides a cover for their use of military bureaucrats--the only large pool of professional civil servants available...
...less dramatic than his original thesis. He thinks that the United States should withdraw from all overseas bases, cease production and testing of nuclear weapons, encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines for intellectuals...
Indeed, it is very disturbing that neither exiled President Mirza and Revolutionary President Ayub nor your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
MONTGOMERY, Ala.--Alabama officials and grand juries are weaving a barrier of legal red tape around voting records the federal Civil Rights Commission has subpoenaed for its first public hearing Monday...