Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, as part of the President's "Southern strategy," is calculated to build the Republican Party in Dixie. There was nothing in Leonard's proposal to suggest a firm determination to enforce the law. On the contrary, it could be construed as an invitation to Southerners to delay carrying out total desegregation as long as possible...
...force immediate compliance, said Finch, "would cause chaos, confusion and an education catastrophe" for the school systems involved. The Administration went to a federal district court to get sanctions for the delay. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund fought the local decision up to the Supreme Court. Thus, ironically, the Administration's emphasis on working through the courts-an approach tending to make integration slower and less painful for the South-produced a Supreme Court demand for a faster pace...
...painfully aware, are still to be resolved. The fact that Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident does not completely preclude prosecution on a more serious charge. An official inquest could determine whether grounds exist for further proceedings, and last week, after nearly two months of delay, the procedure for an inquest was settled...
...timing." Why did the Government decide to block those plans this year? Leonard says that it was because HEW needs additional time to study and perhaps refine them. Another report, by William E. Cresswell, former administrative assistant to Senator John Stennis, claims that the Nixon Administration traded a delay in desegregation for Stennis' vote on its ABM approval (TIME, Sept...
...presidential campaign. Speaking for many critics, a former lawyer in Leonard's division says: "He was made to understand that he should enforce civil rights laws, but only in a manner consistent with the Administration's political goals." When 65 lawyers in his division protested the delay in Mississippi desegregation last month, Leonard handled the revolt like a loyal party man. Once a decision is made in the department, he said at a news conference, the lawyers are obliged to carry it out. He fired the leader of the rebels, Gary Greenberg, who had refused to compromise...