Word: local
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible...
...force immediate compliance, said Finch, "would cause chaos, confusion and an education catastrophe" for the school systems involved. The Administration went to a federal district court to get sanctions for the delay. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund fought the local decision up to the Supreme Court. Thus, ironically, the Administration's emphasis on working through the courts-an approach tending to make integration slower and less painful for the South-produced a Supreme Court demand for a faster pace...
...than that of U.S. private investment, one of the most emotional facets of U.S.-Latin American relations. Many countries view U.S. investment as a form of economic colonialism that extracts more than it puts in. "We will not encourage U.S. private investment where it is not wanted or where local political conditions face it with unwarranted risks," Nixon said. "But my own strong belief is that properly motivated private enterprise has a vital role to play." Nixon plainly had in mind Bolivia's recent nationalization of the U.S.-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co. and Peru's seizure last...
Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared to be some sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members...
Angry Warning. Kenyatta and a milelong KANU motorcade, fresh from rousing receptions in KANU territory, drove into Luo-dominated Kisumu in western Kenya. Almost immediately, signs of hostility were apparent. As a gesture of welcome, local officials had banana trees planted along the road. When Kenyatta drove past, however, cattle and goats set loose by Luo farmers were placidly munching the bananas. At a mass rally to dedicate a $3,500,000 Russian-built hospital, tension sharpened. As Odinga stood by, KPU hecklers shouted "Dume" (pronounced du-may and meaning "bull"), the party's slogan, and KANU backers retaliated...