Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opposing his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, liberal members of the Senate Judiciary Committee embarrassed both Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. and his sponsors when they charged the South Carolina jurist with conflict of interest. Their disclosures about his business connections and stock purchases raised serious questions about Haynsworth's judicial ethics, shook the confidence of his supporters and gave his opponents an unexpected advantage in their fight to prevent his confirmation. But as hearings on Haynsworth's appointment concluded last week, it became obvious that the liberal advantage had been only temporary...
Some questions of ethics will linger for a while, and not a few Senators wish that President Nixon had sent them another nominee. Indiana's Birch Bayh and other liberals are at work digging into possible new conflict charges. But the most determined of Haynsworth's opponents now expect that the Judiciary Committee, which may vote this week, will recommend confirming the appointment. Haynsworth may not have his Supreme Court seat in time for the Oct. 6 opening of the court's fall sitting, but even the opposition to his appointment believes that after a floor debate...
Unresolved Conflict. The trial failed to resolve the conflict between the two accounts of the murder. Prosecution witnesses confirmed that Samuel Saikin had threatened both Joel and Ella Jean, and two recalled his mentioning the surgery to blot out her memory. But the defense was just as strong. One witness said that Joel had complained about his father and promised "to get even" with him. More important, a gas-station attendant placed the two Saikins and the girl together on the Indiana Toll Road and produced a credit-card slip to confirm the identification...
Defensive Stance. The chants and the rhetoric will initially be pure Mao, but the leadership's preoccupation will be with such necessities as the restoration of law and order, the rehabilitation of the economy, a toning down of the conflict with the Soviets. There may even be concessions to private incentive. The compelling need to restore domestic calm might be enough to keep the nation out of foreign adventure. China's military stance is therefore likely to remain defensive for some time-provided the feud with the Soviets does not get out of hand. The dispute between...
...Boston was the scene of a long-awaited confrontation. The Government was pitted against "the peace movement" in open court. The charge was one of conspiring "to unlawfully, knowingly and willfully counsel, aid and abet" draft resistance. To make the conflict sharper still, the five defendants were all extremely reputable, particularly Benjamin Spock, the world's foremost and beloved baby doctor, and William Sloane Coffin, Yale's conscience-driven chaplain. They were, in fact, precisely the kind of men whose voices are supposed to be heard on key issues in a free society. Yet their voices had allegedly...