Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Afraid that antiwar demonstrators might paralyze the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Richard Daley, author of last April's notorious shoot-tokill edict, prepared for full-scale insurrection. "No one," he vowed, "is going to take over the streets." The entire police force, nearly 12,000 men, was ordered onto twelve-hour shifts; 5,650 Illinois National Guardsmen were called up for possible reinforcement, and 5,000 more Guardsmen have been put on alert; 7,000 Army troops were preparing to move in. Logistical units were already in place...
Even so, the land passed into 300 years of Habsburg domination. In hope of quelling the country's continuous unrest, Joseph II in 1781 granted an Edict of Toleration, an agreement that gave the people the right to speak their language and to have a measure of autonomy under Bohemian kings. A flowering of art and literature followed. Czech national feelings reached a high pitch in the 19th century, encouraged by a historian named Frantisek Palacky, who emphasized his people's identity by writing about their long struggle for freedom. "The Hussite war," Palacky wrote, "is the first...
However unhappy the NASD edict may make some investors, there are good reasons for it. Unlisted stocks account for at least 60% of the maddening delays in delivering stock certificates. Moreover, the Securities and Exchange Commission virtually dictated some sort of crackdown. Two weeks ago, as part of a stern warning that dealers may be violating the antifraud provisions of federal securities law if they knowingly trade shares they cannot deliver promptly, the SEC suggested that a possession-before-sale policy would be "appropriate...
...number of leading newspapers editorially worried about the impact of the Pope's edict on population-control programs or governments that are particularly susceptible to Catholic pressure, such as those in Latin America. Wrote West Berlin's liberal Die Zeit: "What kind of church leadership is it that is willing to throw all the warnings of science to the winds? How is this papal decree reconcilable with the command to love thy neighbor, when we already know that between now and 1980 approximately 40 million people will starve to death?" In Manhattan, demonstrators representing the Parents...
...sundial are 500 people ready to follow Mark Rudd (whom they don't particularly like because he always refers to President Kirk as "that shit-head"), into the Low Library administration building to conduct a demonstration against IDA and the gym and test Kirk's anti--indoor demonstration edict. There are around 100 counter-demonstrators. They are what Trustee Arthur Hays Sulzberger's newspaper refers to as "burly white youths" or "students of considerable athletic attainment"--jocks. Various deans and other father surrogates separate the two factions. Low Library is locked. For lack of a better place...