Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that should be said about Mario Savio is that he is on the right side. In making its original ruling, the university infringed on an area of student civil liberties far outside the scope of its just power. It is the FSM position that Kerr, by enforcing the edict, was bowing to pressure from anti-civil rights forces in the state. And this seems to be borne out by the facts...
...meeting, the faculty both challenged the Regents' edict and announced that it intends to take an active part in the administration of the university. If accepted and implemented by the Regents, the Senate's resolution could change basic policies and methods of administration at the University of California...
...reigned for eleven years, sulked in his ultra-modern Naziriyah Palace in the capital city of Riyadh. Just down the road in the Red Palace was Saud's half brother Feisal who two weeks ago was summoned to the throne by a fatwa, or religious edict, issued by a national council composed of 100 princes, assorted sheiks and the ulema (a body of learned men). At the same time the fatwa deposed King Saud, but he refused to abdicate, and no one knew just how to go about making...
...trouble started when the dean of students banned organizations from soliciting membership and funds at outdoor tables on campus. The full spectrum of Berkeley's political make-up, from Goldwaterites to Socialists, rallied together, and Wednesday several groups set up tables in deliberate defiance of the dean's edict...
...then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without a sewing machine. The second follows her student-revolutionary fiance to Siberia. The third elopes with a Gentile. Tevye's buffetings are preludes to a communal sorrow, an edict ordering the Jews to sell their property and leave the land...