Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late yesterday Kleindienst offered NMC a permit for the march which would allow the 300,000 expected demonstrators to proceed down Constitution Avenue passing the south area of the White House on route to the Washington Monument for a mass rally. The NMC leaders rejected the offer.
Kleindienst did not explain why government officials consider Constitution Avenue-which roughly parallels Pennsylvania one block to the south-is more likely to minimize the danger of violence by militants.
The Justice Department had rejected a compromise proposal by NMC earlier yesterday. Under this proposal NMC had dropped its demand to use Pennsylvania Avenue. They had rerouted the march so that marchers would move down Constitution Avenue, circle around the north front of the White House, and gather behind it...
Médici succeeds Arthur da Costa e Silva, an ex-army marshal who had ruled since 1967 but was partially paralyzed by a stroke last August. A military triumvirate took over the government, imperiously brushing aside the civilian Vice President, who should have succeeded Costa e Silva under the...
To dress up Medici's election with a little democracy, the generals allowed Congress to reconvene for the first time since it was dissolved ten months ago in a military crackdown on civilian dissent. There is not much chance that the legislators will ever cause the new President any...