Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Berry does not reach any definite conclusions about the role of out of state whites in southern black campaigns, he implies that they can be helpful only if they commit a substantial amount of time to the campaign and agree to subjugate their own egos and take orders from blacks...
...colonial troops, as is true in any colonial war, even are natives of the three colonies. They are all prisoners of circumstance, ignorant of the great social forces that toss them around like so much dust. In an immediate sense, they are blameless for the atrocities they commit every day. And yet, innocents that they are, liberation force bullets can make no distinction between them and those who send them into battle...
...hour to $2.20. So far, Congress has been unable to muster the forces to override the vetoes, and more vetoes are sure to come. Certain to be rejected by the President, if Congress passes them, are two bills that would circumscribe his power. One would limit his ability to commit military forces to combat without congressional approval; the other would curtail his power to impound funds appropriated by Congress...
...scene has become almost a ritual-a new group of shaggy-haired defendants accused of conspiracy to commit some form of sensational violence, then a weeks-long trial featuring the testimony of paid Government informers, and then a jury verdict of not guilty. Cleared of all charges last week by a federal district court jury in Northern Florida after only four hours of deliberation were the so-called Gainesville Eight, seven members of Viet Nam Veterans Against the War and one nonvet. They had been accused of conspiring to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention-by means of, among other...
ALSO INVOLVED was the issue of freshman housing. Harvard freshmen, except for the minority who are now assigned to Radcliffe Houses, live segregated from the other classes, in the Yard. Radcliffe, on the other hand, has always had four-class living arrangements. Housing construction at the Quad would commit a larger proportion of the freshmen class to the four-class arrangement, while construction in the Yard would further institutionalize the Harvard arrangement...