Word: obtained
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...number of groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, saw the investigation as something more serious than a carnival. What angered them most of all was that HUAC had obtained membership lists of student anti-war groups by serving the administrations of Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Michigan with subpoenas. The ACLU, to prevent a recurrence of these hearings, wrote letters to the Presidents of 900 American colleges, urging them to withhold the membership lists of political organizations from HUAC. President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University announced that HUAC would have to take the university into court in order...
...persuading the judges to bind Shaw over for a formal trial, Garrison won Round 1 in his effort to prove that he has "solved" the assassination. But the D.A. will have to produce more than he has so far to obtain a conviction, and he has yet to introduce any evidence to show that Shaw, Ferrie or anyone else helped out when Lee Harvey Oswald squeezed off his murderous shots in Dallas...
...other cases, economic, social and legal problems combine to form a "poverty syndrome." One student assistant arranged for the probation under his supervision of two parents accused of child neglect, helped them to arrange their debt problems, and subsequently to obtain hospital care. "Most of us no longer make snide cocktail party comments about welfare mothers; we have some insight into their problems," one staff member comments...
...should not tolerate persecution of the innocent by the law in the name of legal prosecution. To obtain the conviction of a man for murder by using false evidence, as did Prosecutor Elaine Ramsey in Illinois, is in itself an attempt to murder...
Helping a country sidestep revolution, building a new nation, promoting world peace--these are large achievements. Few activities of the Peace Corps seem to merit such grandiose description. In the Dominican Republic, volunteers in urban-development projects are organizing neighborhood clinics or helping to obtain piped water for a barrio; those in rural-community development are setting up agrarian leagues and advising on local school construction...