Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report and the Katzenbach statement were reproduced by Teddy Kennedy's office and sent to the other 99 Senators with a covering letter offering further elucidation on request. The Kennedy brothers worked frantically meanwhile to line up individual votes. One of their arguments was that the legal establishment is prejudiced against the "shanty Irish." The White House also made some phone calls to rally wavering support for Morrissey, who was, of course, President Johnson's nominee...
...cops as cheer Perón. By nightfall, more than 600 of the rioters were in jail. Isabel had dropped out of sight, and Perón's tape-recorded message had gone undelivered. President Illia then warned that any unions dabbling in politics would lose their legal rights. The Peronistas called for a 24-hour general strike, but it was only partially successful...
David McReynolds, 35, who speaks for the War Resisters' League in New York City: "Suppose you're convinced that you'd crack up mentally if you went into the service," he says. "You don't have the requisite philosophical stance to satisfy the legal requirements for conscientious objection, so you'd have to go to jail for refusing to fight, and you're convinced you'd crack up there. What alternatives do you have? If you think you have to go to the draft board and pretend you're a homosexual, then...
From the two years of simmering controversy, Maher reaped a bonanza of free publicity--and probably sympathy. The incident has provided what is probably the only issue (though largely a silent one) of the campaign: whether police should be active in politics. Legal and practical sense may counsel against activism, but a good many voters may be moved to vote indirectly...
...improve the judicial system, Morgan advocates a two-prong attack. First, U.S. attorneys should use their statutory power to challenge the racial makeup of federal grand juries. Second, he feels that the Justice Department should employ the 1964 Civil Rights Act to integrate legal facilities (from paddy wagons to court drinking fountains) and jobs (from clerk to state trooper). "Right now the only facility which Negroes and whites share is the electric chair," Morgan says...