Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws than it is to reform the colleges and universities and make them more acceptable to the students. Unfortunately, the moderate student seeking legitimate change will suffer, and those of the extreme right and the New Left will delight in the continuing erosion of genuine democracy in this nation...
...much power should a President have to commit the U.S. overseas? The answer is less than clear. Most Presidents, afraid that too many restrictions would tie their hands in relations with foreign governments, interpret their mandate as broadly as possible. As a result of the nation's experience in Viet Nam, however, there is a move in Congress to narrow the presidential reach. Indeed, Idaho's Senator Frank Church has gone so far as to warn that U.S. presidential power is leading toward "Cae-sarism." "The Roman Caesars," he told his colleagues recently, "did not spring full blown...
...Drug and Hospital Employees Union, were pleased by the outcome. They had good reason. The strike renewed the partnership between the labor and civil rights movements and represented a much needed victory for the advocates of activist nonviolence. The union's objective is to organize the nation's 1,500,000 nonprofessional hospital workers, many of whom are black. As the settlement was being announced, union men were on their way to Baltimore to begin working with the 1,200 semiskilled workers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...answer is that the table grape, Vitis vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers. For more than a year now, table grapes have been the object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support of many Americans ?and the ire of many others. The strike is widely known as la causa, which has come to represent not only a protest against working conditions among California grape pickers but the wider aspirations of the nation's Mexican-American minority as well. La causa's magnetic...
...simple for them to come in and announce that negotiations had been successful, and a peace had been agreed upon. The talks will probably drag on Thursday after Thursday and yet there is the hope that the war could be finished and we could turn our exhausted nation to face its other real problems...