Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violating his parole from an assault conviction. Cleaver became involved last April in a firefight during which the Panthers' 17-year-old treasurer was shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions. Last week, however, the California Court of Appeals reversed that ruling, granting Cleaver 60 days at liberty for appeals...
...justified in using deadly force "only when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another person, or when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to make the arrest and the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a forcible felony, or is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon, or otherwise indicates he will endanger human life or inflict great bodily harm unless arrested without delay...
Almost every parlor pundit in the country has his own theory about how-if at all-Hubert Horatio Humphrey can manage to save the day for the Democrats. The armchair strategy, which could be called Operation Resuscitation, would commit the Vice President to one of three more or less clearly defined alternatives...
...Vice President is counting on Nixon to commit a damaging blunder at some point during the fall, or at least to campaign so timidly, in the hope of avoiding errors, that he will fail to generate sufficient enthusiasm to win. Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...
...Chicago Fraternal Order of Police demanded television time of its own to reply to the "biased" TV coverage. A protest leader, David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Commit tee, also insisted on network exposure to broadcast a denunciation of the cops. To much of the nation, it hardly seemed that Daley's probity needed defending. Radio and TV stations, newspapers and politicians' offices showed letters running as much as 20 to 1 in favor of Daley and the Chicago police. Daley's mail, by his aides' account, was a cascade of praise. TIME reporters found that...