Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds against him. He has been beset by bad luck and bad judgment. On major issues, he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it. Last week he told one Chi cago audience he would mobilize all the resources of the nation to maintain law and order, then told an interviewer less than an hour later: "You know and I know that law and order is es sentially a local problem." Having once dismissed the late Robert Kennedy's proposal of a role for the National Liberation Front in the Saigon government* as akin...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
Others on Humphrey's short list: Maine Senator Edmund Muskie; Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy brother-in-law; New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes; Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris; San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto...
...unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to stop the shutdown. The biggest losers of all are the migrant workers. Thousands of them were stranded without pay in what is normally their most profitable season...
...Wrong. For the most part, The Case Against Congress reports conflict-of-interest cases, many of them unblushingly straightforward. Congressman Sam Gibbons, a Democrat from Florida, sponsored a special bill for construction of a veterans' hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm that has Pittsburgh...