Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally lost patience and sent him packing (see THE HEMISPHERE). Despite the fact that this was a military coup against a constitutional regime, State Department officials made no attempt to conceal their pleasure over Jango's fall. The moment Brazil's Congress gave the new regime a legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson extended his "warmest wishes" and hinted at quick recognition. All this was in line with the policy laid down by Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann (TIME cover...
Next, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund attacked the Atlanta school-integration program as another form of evasion. Atlanta's grade-a-year plan, is not really desegregation, said Lawyer Constance Baker Motley. The pace is too slow, she contended, to qualify as the "deliberate speed" that the Supreme Court called for in 1955. The pace is indeed slow, admitted a lawyer for the Atlanta school board, but the city's attitude, he maintained, "has been compliance, not defiance...
...Justice Department interpreted the issues at stake with greater far-sightedness. An old legal principle called the act of state doctrine holds that courts cannot rule on the validity of acts taken by foreign governments in their own territories. To preserve this doctrine, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to reverse the lower courts, thus respecting Cuban law. The Court did so, with an eloquent opinion written by Justice Harlan...
...medium height with a graying crewcut, Pettigrew could easily pass for a junior executive--that is, until he opens his mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl, clipped short after 12 years in the North, can be turned on and off at will, but generally a distinct trace of it clings to his words...
...South, Negros and whites share a religion and a culture--they've been there together for 14 generations. In the North, on the other hand, there's no unity; whites are afraid of the Negroes. We used to think that once we got over the hump of legal segregation...