Word: favor
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...sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such as the .22-cal. Iver-Johnson eight-shot revolver that felled him on June...
Carloads of pro-control mail have cascaded into Washington. Senators whose mail had run 100-to-1 against gun laws now found the ratio reversed. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case alone has received 11,000 letters since Senator Kennedy's death, 400-to-1 in favor of strong legislation. Tydings drew twice as many letters on guns in a few days as he has on Viet Nam in the past three years. The 16-month-old National Council for a Responsible Firearms Policy launched a campaign to send 10 million pro-control letters to Congress, also...
...Innis, a Harlem-honed black nationalist, will formally replace McKissick next month at CORE's convention in Columbus. Innis, 34, is a bearded manifesto maker who holds that "separation of unlikes is the natural condition of society," and says that blacks generally favor nonviolence, but "not over the achievement of nationalistic objectives." He professes a fear of genocide, not "by the gas chamber but by the slow taking away of our existence" through racial amalgamation. Appealing to Negroes to improve their own lot rather than die in all-out conflict with the white man, Innis adds nonetheless: "We believe...
Such soul-searching has already brought some changes. Some previously scheduled rerun episodes of I Spy, Gunsmoke, Big Valley and even Flying Nun,* among others, were postponed-but not dropped-in favor of less brutal installments. On the West Coast, where next season's shows are already in the works, two It Takes a Thief scripts involving assassination have just been chucked. Alan Armor of CBS's new western, Lancer, has edited out one shooting and one ambush from his premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered...
...suspect, most Communist media switched to discrediting Israel instead of the U.S. "Arabs at the United Nations express the conviction," reported Radio Warsaw, "that Sirhan was a murderer hired to harm the Arab cause," adding somewhat lamely: "American commentators are trying to divert attention from internal U.S. affairs, which favor the atmosphere of violence, and instead put emphasis on external motives." The Arab press took pains to point out that Kennedy had "paid the price," as Beirut's Al-Bairag phrased it, of a pro-Jewish stand, also suggested that Kennedy's eventual Mideast policy might have been...