Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEDIUM COOL. Writer-Director Haskell Wexler takes a fictitious plot, places it against an authentic backdrop (the Chicago convention), and explodes a film that is both social and cinematic dynamite.
This notion is regarded as too slow and too square by elements of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, a loose federation comprising representatives of some 50 established groups long allied with peace efforts. They include such diverse organizations as the National Council of Churches...
Next month 116 nations will begin observing the International Civil Aviation Organization's Tokyo Convention, which provides for prompt return of hijacked planes and passengers-but not the hijackers. The ICAO has drafted a treaty that would make prosecution or extradition of hijackers mandatory, but its chances for approval...
Mexicans will not go to the polls to elect their next President for another nine months, but as of last week everyone knew who the winner would be. His name: Luis Echeverria Alvarez, 47, now Interior Minister under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Endorsed last week by the ruling Partido...
Defense attorneys at the raucous trial of the Chicago Eight are doing their best to show that U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman is biased. The little jurist often seems determined to prove them right. Before the jury, he has praised U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran as one of the finest prosecutors...