Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning that the civil rights movement was "very, very close" to a split, he exhorted believers in nonviolence to become "more forthright, more aggressive, more militant." Late last year he added: "We have learned from hard and bitter experience that our Government does not move to correct a problem involving race until it is confronted directly and dramatically." At the end, he was organizing the massive march of the poor on Washington-and if Congress proved recalcitrant, he threatened to obstruct the national political conventions...
...target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like "elements" of 30 to 40 men, each of which takes orders only from a central high command. It also tor-bids its members to use their correct names, assigns each a number or pseudonym instead...
...estimate is correct, the number of college graduates inducted could jump to as high as 150,000 out of a total draft of 240,000 projected for fiscal 1969, which begins July 1. This represents a jump from 5 to 60 per cent in the proportion of draftees who have completed college study...
Cold Cliches. At the end of the first day, prepackaged rhetoric gave way to poignance as Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell asked if it "might be conceivable" that many U.S. allies are correct in their doubts about U.S. strategy. "Well," Rusk replied, "these are questions that one approaches on one's knees. One cannot be eternally dogmatic about them...
...correct the past inequity of deferring students by perpetrating a new one--drafting them almost exclusively--is absurd...