Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who undertook the responsibility of fulfilling the aims which induced the armed forces to lead the Greek people to revolution. As regards the democratic spirit in the Cabinet, you may collect information from any source, and if you find any one person who can tell you that an opinion or at titude has ever been imposed on the Cabinet, I permit you to call me publicly a dishonest...
...Harvey II declared that his beliefs were clearly "a product of a faith." Harvey pointed out that Shacter was strongly influenced by his early training in Judaism, and indeed had used such religious words as sacred and holy entity. Thus, said the judge, the ruling was consistent with the opinion in the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, Justice Tom Clark broadly interpreted the test of religious belief. To qualify as a C.O., wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere and meaningful" and "occupy a place in the life...
According to Washington Lawyer Michael Tigar, the editor of the Selective Service Law Reporter, Judge Harvey's decision extends Clark's opinion "very significantly." Perhaps trying to caution those who may seek reclassification as a result of it, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey pointedly observed at week's end that "the area of religion is a very complicated...
...students. Two faculty committees now have student groups with which they are actively working and two others would welcome similar arrangements. The work of faculty committees varies widely in the degree to which the interest of students is involved. The problems in selecting interested students and otherwise ascertaining student opinion are extremely complex. As your reporter stated, the meeting was indeed "indecisive." It provided no basis whatever for making the statement attributed to me. John P. Dawson
...EISENSTADT'S opinion the situation is improving. "There have been fewer ethnic tensions in the last two years," he said. This was particularly apparent during the Six Day War, before which officials were worried that there would be problems calling up army reservists from among the immigrants. "It was the end of a recession," Eisenstadt recalls, and there was much unemployment in the development towns. "There was apprehension on how the morale would hold up" when the working man of the family would be called away, and no one knew how people would react to the tension...