Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political prisoner, Strachan recounted, he frequently saw black prisoners whipped, kicked and tortured with shocks from an electrotherapy machine. The Mail collected an affidavit from Strachan, and sworn corroborating statements from two warders and two ex-prison ers, to back up a sensational series of stories and an editorial demand for a government inquiry into prison conditions...
...same time, there will be a continuing campaign for "abortion on demand" on the ground that this is "every woman's birthright." This campaign, in the opinion of Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population, will fail because "the public does not want abortion on demand and is not prepared to accept it." A more realistic approach to reducing the demand for illegal abortion, Guttmacher believes, is to make effective contraception far more widely available...
...racial slight, the 400 black ministers attending the meeting stalked out of the Gateway and finished their convention in an Episcopal church. The incident typified not only the touchy militancy of the conference but, in general, the mood of Negro Christian clergymen who enthusiastically support the contemporary secular demand for Black Power. Black caucuses have been formed within most of the major denominations to lobby for greater Negro participation in ecclesiastical decision making...
...that a major goal should be the creation of a fully developed black theology. Among other things, this theology might in-clude the relation of the struggles of the Negro to the Biblical experience of the Jews as God's chosen people, and the black man's demand for justice to Jesus' ethical teachings. It might also justify, on a more practical level, the artistic presentation of Christ as black- something that has been done in a number of Negro parishes...
Despite such obstacles, the nation still has a better chance than it has had in decades to break housing's cost-inflating shackles, if only because rising housing demand may soon make it all but impossible to build any other...