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...Student Bar Association of Howard's law school is also seeking an injunction: this one against the university officials to compel them to reopen the school...
...Johnson Administration, of course, is unwilling even to consult dovish Senators before it makes decisions on the war. Last week Fulbright had to threaten a delay of the foreign aid authorization to compel Secretary of State Dean Rusk to testify, but Gore would rather not use that sort of pressure. He is confident that the complexity of world problems and the force of public opinion will lead future Administrations to seek the Senate's advice, if only to share the blame for their policies...
...Palace by King Frederik IX to form a new government. Baunsgaard has displayed a pacifistic aversion to NATO, but he profited only slightly from the election-eve crash of a U.S. nuclear bomber in Danish-owned Greenland. He must form a coalition with other center parties, who undoubtedly will compel him to keep Denmark on its pro-Western course...
...title, "Father of the Steam Navy." He was correct even about the future: he prophesied that the Pacific would become America's sea of destiny, and he warned that one day there would be a showdown with Russia. But his correctness -his insufferable common sense-fails to compel the imagination...
...specifically exempted from the ceiling. The second amendment, put forward by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, put an arbitrary limit of $131.5 billion on all spending with the proviso that Johnson could add to that figure only to meet new war costs. The effect of the bill would be to compel Johnson to gut such programs as educational aid, urban development, antipoverty operations and foreign...