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...Hampshire County Superior Court Judge yesterday granted a preliminary injunction that would prevent the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from dismissing 18 employees who have refused to sign a state-required loyalty oath, pending a hearing on the merits of the case...
...case is one of three actions against the newly reinstated loyalty oath now pending in state courts...
James H. Matlack, assistant professor of English at UMass-Amherst and a plaintiff in the suit, said yesterday. "The challenge rests on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law. Although the oath is mandatory for every state employee, there have been a lot of inconsistencies in who is actually required to sign...
...signing the compromise agreement with Common Cause, C.R.P. retained the right to litigate whether contributors from March 10 to April 6 must eventually be revealed. It also avoided the potentially damaging spectacle of having two of the President's principal fund raisers brought onto the witness stand, under oath, in the closing days of the campaign. Maurice Stans, C.R.P. national finance chairman and Hugh Sloan, former C.R.P. treasurer, both had been scheduled to testify this week...
...mercy of Richard Nixon loomed to black politicians and black people in general on the bleal: noon of his inauguration, was the fact that they had no guarantee that had Humphrey been elected, they would now be anything more than at his tender mercies once he had taken the oath of office. Essentially, this was the realization that despite Humphrey's personal reputation as a champion of black causes and the similar, if less impressive, reputation of the national Democratic party, blacks had failed to elicit from either anything save the same vague promises of patronage and progressivism that they...