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Word: laws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reports, two days before the Kremlin incident, the young lieutenant deserted his unit, taking his pistol with him. Reaching Moscow the day before the celebration for the Soyuz4 and Soyuz5 cosmonauts, he spent the night at the home of his sister. The next morning he borrowed his brother-in-law's police uniform, explaining that, clad in that manner, he would be able to get a closer view of the parade. Some variants say that he also took his brother-in-law's pistol, which would explain reports that he fired away with a pistol in each hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Speculative Silence | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

After the fights on campus yesterday, Harrington and university chancellor H. Edwin Young asked Madison Mayor Otto F. Festges to request assistance from the Wisconsin National Guard. Knowles ordered 900 soldiers to move onto the campus last night to "assist local law enforcement officers to restore order on the University of Wisconsin campus...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Knowles Calls Up National Guard To Subdue Wisconsin Student Riot | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...COLLECTED statutes of the Common-wealth of Massachusetts are replete with quaint laws bearing titles little changed since the 19th century. Over the years, the state has allowed the most archaic of these to die in practice through lack of enforcement. One that has not died is the state's anti-birth control law, contained in the statutes under the heading "Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency, and Good Order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

...law is enforced just enough to assure that the poor-but not the wealthy--have a difficult time obtaining contraceptives. Harvard and Radcliffe students have almost no difficulty purchasing birth control devices in nearby stores or from private physicians, but the residents of Roxbury or Dorchester are not similarly privileged. The poor are seldom financially able to consult a private physician for birth control purposes, and state-supported welfare agencies refuse to help them in such matters. As a result they bear children they often cannot afford and do not want, or try to induce abortions by such dangerous means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

Graduate students in medicine, biology, life sciences, engineering, and law are needed this summer to work with Ralph Nader in an investigation of various government programs. Call Robert Fellmeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nader's Raiders | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

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