Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapon was uncertain. Clark initially hinted that a ballistic test had yielded positive results. Subsequent reports that the unjacketed slug had been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also kept secret. Other rumors died quickly, such as the one that had a Memphis police officer under secret arrest. Said Assistant Police Chief U. T. Bartholemew: "We're struggling...
...measure contained other titles-two antiriot clauses and language safeguarding the constitutional rights of American Indians-but its crucial provision was for open housing, which will eventually help turn the lock to release Negroes from their imprisoning urban ghettos. Like other recent civil rights bills, the 1968 act carries the danger of promising too much and delivering too little, and reaction among Negro leaders was mixed. CORE's associate director Roy Innis sneered: "This is a hoax on the black people." Replied the N.A.A.C.P.'s Clarence Mitchell, who lobbied for the bill: "Anyone making such statements either...
...obsequious vice regent. "I will do everything I can for the cause of peace in the world," he told a wildly enthusiastic audience of A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders in Baton Rouge, La. "I will do everything I can to keep social progress moving forward in America. And I ask your help, and the help of all Americans, in doing this." Responded Victor Bussie, the Louisiana A.F.L.-C.I.O. president: "There are many thousands of us who hope you will be a candidate...
...elections, probably in the fall. "I'm concerned with this problem of unity," he said. "After this kind of battle, there are always some scars left, not so much in terms of ideologies as in terms of personalities." By settling its own differences, Trudeau suggested, the party can help settle the broader differences within the country itself. "This image of the party-united, progressive, turned toward the future-must be the model for Canada...
Unfortunately, that very fear has a way of increasing violence. Fearful citizens ignore the victim's cry for help; by shunning parks and other public places, they free muggers to attack isolated pedestrians. The U.S. mind is haunted by wanton multiple murder-16 people killed by a sniper in Austin, eight nurses slain by a demented drifter in Chicago. It is hard to convince the fearful that 80% of U.S. murders (half involve alcohol) are committed by antagonistic relatives or acquaintances, not strangers...