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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was just the sort of pressure that Humphrey had wisely avoided. The President's response to Bobby came in his remarkable public announcement of July 30 that he was eliminating all Cabinet members from vice-presidential consideration. Most specifically, that meant the Attorney General...
Once ashore, newsmen could scarcely believe their notes: Barry Goldwater willing to negotiate with Red China? Press Aide Paul Wagner hurriedly put in a radiophone call to Barry for further clarification. He came back and told the confused newsmen that Goldwater merely meant that the U.S. should be ready to threaten the Red Chinese if they continued to supply Viet Cong guerrillas-telling them that "if they didn't stop, then you would blow up a bridge or show some other sort of force." Wagner explained that Barry had told him on the phone: "I'm not really...
...Cave-In. In Saigon, the disorders grew. Catholic students set fire to the building of the predominantly Buddhist National Students' Union, whose members, for their part, sacked the budget department of the Information Ministry -only to apologize, explaining that they had meant to destroy the department of censorship. On the third day, 2,000 students staged a sitdown in front of Khanh's office, while agitators squatting among them denounced him as "too tricky." Finally Khanh decided to resign as President, and the 62-member Military Council announced that it would "select a new national leader." With...
Essence & Energy. To Puerto Ricans, the Muñoz announcement meant much more than the leave-taking of an able administrator and brilliant politician. For more than a generation Muñoz has been the island's one and only leader-vigorous, charismatic, the essence and energy of an economic and social revolution that has touched the lives of every Puerto Rican...
...Supreme Court long permitted states to accept or reject the "exclusionary rule," based on the Fourth Amendment, which bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. As a result, police were free to operate without search warrants wherever and whenever they thought it desirable. In most states that meant most places most of the time...