Word: obstructionism
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Even so, when Georgia and Mississippi failed to act in racial murders last year, the U.S. sought federal grand jury indictments under Section 241 against three lawmen, six Ku Klux Klansmen and 15 other private persons. Two federal judges tossed the indictments out, ruling that freedom from murder is not...
He was still in miserable shape: his weight was down from 180 lbs. to 117 [ thought I had only six or seven months to live," he says. Though he lived longer, his health continued to deteriorate. He underwent surgery for intestinal trouble, and for a while he was in traction...
When Dr. Newman's team operated they were startled to find not a partial obstruction but a complete blocklage of the aorta. Scar tissue was there as they had suspected, but it had evidently formed slowly, in successive layers. While it was forming, a dozen minor blood vessels on...
The demonstrator demanded that about 100 of their number be allowed to present to President Johnson or one of his assistants the signatures on a peace petition. A spokesman said that "nearly 7000" people have signed the petition, pledging to refuse service in the armed forces and to encourage obstruction...
The almost accidental discovery was made after doctors at Memorial had all but given up hope for a patient dying of renal failure. The vaunted artificial kidney could no longer clear the poisons from his blood, and only a transplant offered any hope. But the only kidney available was far...