Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...functions of officers in the United States military "services." The suggestion of such a referendum reminds us of Stephen Douglas's conception of a "democratic" solution to the problem of the expansion of slavery before the Civil War. Under Douglas's plan, the white residents of the territorial areas (Nebraska and Kansas) would vote to decide whether slavery would be legal when the territories attained statehood. For moral men, there can be no "right" to suppress people fighting for social, political, and economic freedom, just as there is no "right" to enslave other...
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...partisan legislature and local government make the party organization of little importance. The conservative Douglas County (Omaha--half the state) "courthouse gang" is about the only machine worth attacking. This the largely McCarthyite, newly-founded Nebraska Democratic Coalition is seeking to defeat in the April '69 Omaha mayoralty elections. Founded by Omaha lawyer Frank Martin Jr., the Coalition has brought in significant black support from the Northside ghetto of Omaha. The Kennedy forces who remained following the May primary have joined the Coalition. If the liberals take Omaha next year and can organize as well as they...
...over the past sixteen years to become the major grassroots political organization in a state with a long tradition of weak party organizations. Organized town by town into councils, the CDC has had an important influence on the party candidates and platform. In western states like Arizone, Washington, and Nebraska who have had similar traditions of relatively weak party machines, the CDC is being avidly copied...
...University of Nebraska graduate who put in a two-year stretch at Leavenworth says: "The guards were the dumbest, most conservative s.o.b.s I've ever seen, but they were not half as bad as the other prisoners. It seemed like the two most despised groups were the C.O.s and the sexual perverts." For most of the resisters, the biggest enemies are boredom, lack of privacy, separation from friends and loved ones, and petty harassment by guards. They work as prison-library clerks, auto-shop mechanics, gardeners, dishwashers or launderers. Some of them find the repressive atmosphere of prison just...