Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands and the idea of an obstructive sit-in originated with Black Students for Action (BSFA), a group formed by Afro members dissatisfied with Afro's "delay" in taking action...
...AFTER A DELAY of almost two years, the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) began yesterday in Helsinki. The event was barely noticed in this country, and SALT possibly qualifies as the most neglected offspring of the Nixon Administration. The President has scarcely mentioned it in public, being more preoccupied with Vietnam and inflation. One could at least expect him to be concerned about the expense of an arms race. A momentous project like arms control requires vigorous leadership from Washington, which, except for John Mitchell, is a vacuum of such leader ship at the moment...
...great, but it nonetheless must have the amenities to make life tolerable. Misery should not force thousands to live on the streets, as it does in the big cities of India; residents must be able to move from one place to another without undue strain or great delay; the conditions of life, ranging from prices to climate, cannot be totally oppressive. A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence. Money cannot buy a great city, but a great city must...
Despite Hoffman's disapproval, Seale claims that there was good reason for his courtroom outbursts; the judge, he said, had denied him proper representation at the conspiracy trial. Two weeks before the trial, Seale asked for a delay because his own lawyer, Charles Garry of San Francisco, was about to have gall-bladder surgery. The judge denied the delay on the ground that the defendants had enough other lawyers to represent them. Indeed, in Garry's absence, William Kunstler filed a notice of appearance that enabled him to act as counsel for Seale. Garry says that he advised...
...represented Scale previously. "If Hoffman knew anything about the Panthers," says Professor Harry Kalvin Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School, "he would have understood that Garry is the only lawyer that Scale trusts, and therefore that his request for a postponement was not just a stunt to delay the trial." In Garry's absence, adds Professor Abraham Goldstein of Yale Law School, Hoffman should have allowed Scale to act as his own counsel and to personally cross-examine witnesses...