Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite dismayed that there should be a furor over David Weltha's teaching of reincarnation at Iowa State University in Ames [March 27]. I was always under the impression that we send our children to college to learn about existing theories and knowledge in the universe. We surely expose them to the concepts of Communism, genocide and terrorism, as well as other world dynamics that have a significant effect on the human condition...
...reading the article "60-Minute Dash" [March 27], I was aghast at the comment from ABC's Bob Shanks that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless" and that its 14-minute pieces seem too long...
That explanation hardly satisfied Houston's outraged Mexican Americans, who staged a protest march through downtown Houston. "I think our community is at the end of its rope," cried State Representative Ben Reyes. Similarly angered by the second light verdict, Prosecutor Canales last week obtained Bell's personal approval and then filed a rare legal challenge to Judge Sterling's sentence, demanding prison terms of ten years. Argued the Justice Department: "The U.S. has grave concern that the imposition of probation in this case will cause citizens of all races and backgrounds to believe that the sentence...
...death penalty had the defendant been white or the guard black.* There is no evidence, however, that Harris, who was first convicted of burglary when he was 16, has ever been a fighter for civil or human rights. He was condemned to die in the electric chair on March 10, but a Mobile, Ala., district judge issued a last-minute 60-day stay of execution...
...timing of that scheduled execution helps explain the Soviets' sudden espousal of the Harris case. It coincided with the end of the Belgrade Conference on European Security and Cooperation on March 9. On that day, the U.S.S.R. managed to suppress any mention of human rights in the final document produced by the conferees, even though the 35-nation meeting had been called to review compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords, including its human rights provisions. The Russians evidently seized on the case of Johnny Harris as a convenient riposte...