Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"The right of privacy always needs defending, but the proposed civil rights legislation in no way encroaches on that right, properly defined. Nor is the possibility that a government may abuse a new power an argument for denying it a legitimate authority. It is an argument only for preventing the...
Sir: The barbaric death sentence given to Jack Ruby in Dallas [March 20] was a vindictive act prompted by a vicious, small-minded local press and citizenry. Injustice cannot bring about justice, nor can it eradicate the errors of the police department.
∙ EL SALVADOR: In 1961 opposition parties were thoroughly discouraged when President Julio Rivera's National Conciliation Party won all 54 seats in the legislature. They even boycotted the presidential election the next year. A reform-minded, military man, Rivera was embarrassed, promised an honest count on the basis...
The election came after four years of haggling and politicking, and represents a victory for the conservative Orthodox forces in Israel, reflecting the attitude of the tradition-minded electoral college.
> Many of the dead are still living: "Emile's mother was one of those widows who keep themselves in a continuous state of readiness for some call, some invitation, some meeting that will never take place because the lover is dead. You find them answering the telephone in the...