Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already faced with the prospect of cutting faculty strength by 7,000 teachers and reducing services because of the city's inability to meet the cost of a Daley-dictated contract. Now he must also contend with an obdurate union, whose president, John Desmond, has custom, state law and the public on his side and has vowed to defend the seniority system in court...
...law and order: "I would assume any [police] superintendent would issue orders to shoot any arsonists on sight." (April 15, 1968) "There wasn't any shoot-to-kill order. That was a fabrication." (April...
Even the whites had to admit that the black government was bringing a new vitality to the sleepy town. A city cleanup campaign was immediately launched, particularly in neglected black neighborhoods. Evers also made it clear that he was going to be a law-and-order mayor. Among his responsibilities is to serve as police justice, which gives clout to Evers' inaugural promise that there would be "no more clownin', and cursin' and disrespectin' people in the streets." Last week he fined a white from Louisiana $25 for reckless driving; a local black paid...
...First Circuit Court of Appeals was a less than resounding victory. True, the court over turned the year-old convictions of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber on charges that they conspired to aid, abet and counsel draft registrants to violate the Selective Service law. Author Mitchell Goodman and Yale Chaplain the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, who were convicted on the same conspiracy charges, were granted retrials. From the dissenters' view point, however, the cases had been won for entirely the wrong reasons. Their right to unrestrained dissent was not reaffirmed...
...French veto," Pompidou said. At present, the EEC was nothing more than "a customs union on the one hand and, on the other, an agricultural community quite difficult to operate." The needs for more integrated farm trade, plus progress in science, industrial energy, transportation and the harmonization of business law should all have priority over expanding the community's size, Pompidou said. However, he was prepared to discuss new negotiations with the British at a Common Market summit meeting this fall...