Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before I knew it. I was on strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having stuck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable...
...terms, could take on some aspects of a kangaroo court. Boyle opened the inquest to 103 reporters and denied that the hearing represented an accusatory proceeding. Hence, ruled Boyle, lawyers for the witnesses-including Kennedy and the others who attended the Chappaquiddick cookout-had no right to cross-examine or challenge testimony on the grounds of irrelevancy...
Under the Geneva Convention, signed by North Viet Nam in 1957, prisoners are to be humanely treated and identified, sick and injured released. The Red Cross is to be allowed to inspect the camps, and prisoners' mail allowed to be delivered. Despite the fact that many captured Americans are injured airmen, only nine men have been freed by North Viet Nam during the past five years. Because the North Vietnamese have generally refused to let prisoners write home and have not published the names of Americans held captive, no one knows exactly how many...
Legalized Regime. Throughout the week, extreme secrecy was maintained, and almost no foreigners were allowed to cross the borders. Much of the coup seemed to be run by radio; an announcer would say which officials had been dismissed and which kept in office and all, amazingly, seemed to obey. Only one name was given prominence in connection with the coup-Colonel Saaduddin Abu Shweirib, who was made the army's new Chief of Staff. Shweirib, who is in his 30s, studied at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Sacked from the army...
Wearing a yellow and green dashiki, the Rev. Junius Carter, rector of Pittsburgh's Holy Cross Church, trembled with emotion as he looked out from the speaker's lectern at the delegates assembled in Notre Dame University's domed athletic center. "Too long, bishops, you have sat on the sidelines and have not acted as our pastors!" he shouted. "I urge you to intervene at this convention and exercise the authority that has been given you by our Lord...