Word: obstructionism
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Unity. As commencement speaker at the University of Texas, he was, for one thing, the Great Moderator. Said he: "It is one of the great tasks of political leadership to make our people aware that they share a fundamental unity of interest, purpose and belief. On the ba sis of...
After four days of intense deliberation, the jury was only a hairbreadth away from a verdict in the federal trial of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Once confident of a hung jury, Cohn paced nervously outside Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Court, fretting...
The chairman defended France's controversial obstruction to Britain's entry to the European Economic Community: "In refusing Britain's entry, we saved the Common Market." But he later added that "we would like them someday to join."
One is Title VI, empowering Washington to cut off federal aid from programs where discrimination is practiced. Russell calls this the "genocide clause," insists that it would kill off "a large section of the country"-namely, the Deep South. The other is Title VII, empowering a Federal Equal Employment Opportunity...
For it is the nature of high-speed expressways that the slightest obstruction, like a pebble in a rifle barrel, creates chaos. Martin's skid jammed traffic for ten miles, blocked the highway for three hours.