Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achievement for which Fortas can claim no laurels was Johnson's response to last summer's Detroit riots. Fortas wrote the President's message ordering federal troops into the city. It was an unfortunate speech, blatantly political and overly technical in a time that called for reassurance and sympathy. Johnson, however, was shocked that anybody would dare to criticize it. "Why," he told a visitor, "I had the best constitutional lawyer in the United States right here, and he wrote that...
...reason for Humphrey's hyperactivity was psychological: if he stayed aloof for the final weeks before the Democratic Convention, Eugene McCarthy's supporters could claim all the more plausibly that the Administration had engineered a closed convention. Beyond that, Humphrey was still actively proselytizing among delegates and dissidents because he feared the long-range damage his candidacy might suffer if 1) a McCarthy-supported fourth party materialized, or 2) large numbers of disaffected Democrats decided to sit out the November election...
...demonstration at the Department of Agriculture did dissolve into a sit-in on Independence Avenue and a bottle-throwing fracas with police outside the shanty city. Arrests: 87. Even so, by toning down his demands to include those things that are within reach and by exaggerating his successes-he claims credit for several actions that the Administration would probably have taken anyway-Abernathy has also left open the door to retreat. Thus the marchers can leave with some claim to victory, though, sad to say, it is mostly illusory...
Stoking the conflagrations, police informers say, is a cabal of fewer than 50 extremists, whose efforts are abetted by Fidel Castro. Earlier this year, a band calling themselves Armed Commandos for Liberation lay claim to the fires in letters to the press. By making it impossible for businesses to obtain insurance, they aim to evict "the Yankee invader and his investment of imperialist capital" from the island...
...Commandos can already claim some victories. Despite a 70% hike in fire insurance rates for 1968, many insurers were canceling protection for U.S.-owned supermarkets and stores. To help them out, Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella earlier this month signed an emergency law forcing insurance companies in Puerto Rico to take on up to $7,000,000 a year in high-risk policies for companies unable to obtain normal insurance coverage...