Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action would include supportive action in the form of letters, telegrams, and SNCC fasts. However, the questionnaire is limited to the procedural alternatives of requiring a referendum for action each time or permitting RGA to implement action, subject only to standard operating procedures (a referendum if twenty-five people object). That is, the questionnaire considers "when" and "how" action should be taken, completely ignoring...
...unanimous college referendum might empower RGA to make a political statement or to support a political cause. And if a statement were to be made in the name of "the majority of RGA," the public would ignore the qualification, and identify the statement with "Radcliffe." Many students who would object to mandatory membership in the Young Democrats or Young Republicans would see no objection to mandatory support of civil rights, which they see as a moral issue. They realize that political views may vary, but they judge moral issues blanketly. However, there is a distinction between moral and legal...
Questioning Negro witnesses, Pitts was aggressive to the point that N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Jack Greenberg, representing King, jumped to his feet to object to Pitts's "insulting manner." Judge Johnson sustained Greenberg. "Everybody in this court, regardless of who he or she is, will be treated with common courtesy," said...
...Congo's Belgian-owned industries, than he was racing to consolidate his success politically. Crowing that the "return of the portfolio" was the equivalent of political and economic independence -and the symbol of national dignity-Tshombe flew off for a conference with other political leaders in Luluabourg. The object was to form an electoral alliance that would carry him through to victory, give him if possible a majority in both the National Assembly and Senate. That takes some doing, since the Congo, as if to prove it can be more democratic than anybody, has no fewer than 221 political...
...from South Africa and Rhodesia. An additional 400 Belgian and French mercenaries were poised in the jungle towns to the west of the rebels' center, and Tshombe's own Congolese army was not far behind, presumably waiting only for the end of the O.A.U. conference to strike. Object of the new offensive: to cut off the rebels' only remaining road connections with the outside world, clear as much of the northeast portion of the Congo as possible before the elections...