Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defend the Constitution. "It is an outrage," declared Columbia University Government Professor Alan Westin, author of the 1967 book Privacy and Freedom and one of 13 professors who fired off an impassioned protest to Mitchell. "It is one of the most dangerous claims for power by an Attorney General in our history...
...Buffalo, one of the staunchest opponents of unregulated Government wiretapping, agreed. "Once you have such a tool," he said, "the temptation to use it is enormous." It could, others argued, be employed almost at will against any political dissident who happened to arouse the anger of an incumbent Attorney General. Describing the Justice Department's approach as a serious threat to the First Amendment (freedom of speech and assembly) and the Fourth (protection against unreasonable search and seizure), the American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a federal court injunction to halt all bugging of a domestic political character...
...revolution began in July of 1952, Heikal was with the leaders. "I drove [General Mohammed] Naguib to his command post," he told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs. "Nasser was there. They had control of Cairo but were worrying about the rest of the country. It was a busy and exciting night." He has been Nasser's all but official press spokesman ever since...
...reefers, or even the occasional, "recreational" user. But they do apply, he said, to regular users. The anarchic anti-Establishment attitude of these "pot lushes," Philip added, stems from an "intolerable, chronic, low-grade depression, including 1) a subjective sense that somehow they have been cheated by life in general and by their parents in particular, and 2) a smoldering, tense, brooding sort of resentfulness...
...firm has orders on its books for refineries and petrochemical plants worth $100 million. Last March, only one month after McKee appointed him joint managing director, CTIP's Gian Vittono Cavanna started secret negotiations with Technip, a French government-owned engineering firm. Without telling McKee, Cavanna signed a general agreement calling for a reshuffling of CTIP ownership among Technip, McKee and Italian companies. The idea was that divided leadership would enable CTIP employees to run their company themselves, rather than let tight control remain with the parent organization in the U.S. Despite the threat of a costly walkout, CTIP...