Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daley did have supporters. More than 4,500 letters and telegrams running 15 to 1 in favor of his stand reached his office. Some even suggested that Daley run for President. Few of the hard-liners noted that in the confusion of a riot, police would have to be veritable Lone Rangers in their marksmanship to pick off arsonists or to "maim" running looters, supposedly hitting them in the legs to bring them down. Moreover, warned U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the indiscriminate use of "deadly force" could lead to "a very dangerous escalation of the problems...
...words spilled haltingly from the pulpit of Memphis' crowded Clayborn Temple A.M.E. Church: "All those in favor of ratification, stand." But the congregation's response was anything but faltering. The big Negro church rocked with happy cheers, the thud of stomping feet and the din of dancing in the aisles. "And all those opposed?" persisted T. O. Jones, the emotion-choked president of Public Works Local 1733, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. In their delighted and deliriously unanimous mood, the question was neither heard nor heeded by Memphis' 1,300 striking garbage...
...ground-to-air missiles to India, or else start selling them to him. Cut off from most new weaponry since the five-week border war with India in 1965, except for a few Communist Chinese planes and tanks, Ayub feels that the balance of subcontinental power is tilting in favor of India-and remains unconvinced by Russia's claim that India's arsenal is only for use against Red Chinese invaders. Furthermore, Pakistan wants the Soviets to lift their U.N. Security Council veto on discussion of Kashmir, the disputed Indian-held state of largely Moslem complexion. Ayub wants...
Though the junta has set Sept. 1 as the date for a plebiscite for a new constitution, few Greeks feel that the ex-colonels will step aside in favor of a representative government-though they may form their own party and permit elections if they think they are fairly certain of winning. Right now, talk of elections is extremely vague. Says Premier Papadopoulos: "You are asking the surgeon to plan out the patient's summer vacation two years-hence, while he is still strapped to the surgical table...
...above a certain level of competence in a field. There is always the possibility of do- ing a special project for credit--the only way you can go above that level of competence. But these are difficult to get approved. And if there is a tendency to favor a certain kind of project, it is for those of mixed or experimental media. A simple painting project might be rejected because the Center wouldn't want to legitimize what outsiders might consider a craft...