Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although neither of these difficuties can be eliminated easily, much more could be done now. The Federal Housing Administration requires local authorities to obey certain rules before they can receive funds; it might extend its regulations to include the following...
...more than Mali's President Modibo Keita could afford. Eager to create a sound, solvent state, he exercised his sovereignty in 1962 by raising Mali's cattle tax by 300% (to $1.20 a head), stubbornly insisted on collecting it. The Tuaregs saw no reason why they should obey. Blithely, they began smuggling their cattle into Niger and Upper Volta. When Keita's tax collectors cracked down, the Tuaregs began shooting...
...when the driver ordered them to give up their seats to white passengers. "When we didn't move right away, the driver started cursing us out and calling us black sons of bitches. I decided not to move at all, but my teacher pointed out that we must obey the law. So we got up and stood in the aisle the whole 90 miles to Atlanta. It was a night I'll never forget. I don't think I have ever been so deeply angry in my life...
...fine entrepreneurial fashion, the Council hired an advertising agency to aid in the development of the "selling" campaign. It decided to avoid all moral aspects of the problem. "The program confines itself," pamphlets declared "to Federal law, which insists that Dallas schools desegregate. All good citizens must obey the law." Distributed throughout the city were brochures with this message in various forms, and posters of children playing, with the caption "Keep Dallas Safe for Them, Avoid Violence." The agency prepared a film, "Dallas at the Crossroads," every propaganda angle possible--from the birth of a baby to a Boy Scout...
According to Brennan's report, "authorities...responsible for the supervision of students" believe that "the vast majority are weil behaved and manifest a willingness to respect and obey the rules...