Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little impulse leads to another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step...
...team of teachers, consisting of a sociologist, an economist, a political scientist, and maybe a psychologist or historian (although history is officially in the humanities at FCC), conduct the courses. The things they planned to stress, one faculty member said in an interview this summer, were things that were directly related to the student's background. The hope is to make students aware of the problems of the ghetto and able to do something about them...
...police calm" in the face of "verbal provocation," "filthy abuse," and "language, however violent" is irresponsible and ridiculous. To justify such acts in the name of the First Amendment is just absurd. Surely you must know that the law prohibits the use of obscene language in public places, disorderly conduct, violent language, and interfering with a police officer in the exercise of his duty. You might as well defend the shouting of "Fire!" in a crowded theater...
...editorial that ran throughout the chain, "including the miserable war in Viet Nam, we need a President who can keep cool, who can make a decision and carry it out, who knows when to hold his tongue and when to use it. Richard Nixon's experience and conduct clearly show these abilities. Hubert Humphrey, especially in this campaign, has created strong doubt that he has comparable abilities...
...would like to have us become contributors to your campaign," Mott wrote to Humphrey, "but you should not expect an immediate decision from any of us checkbook-in-hand. We will each make our own individual judgments on the basis of how you answer our questions and how you conduct your campaign in the coming weeks...