Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cold. The nominal primary opposition was Howard Morgan, 52, former Democratic state chairman and an outright critic of the U.S. war effort. But in making the race, Duncan was also taking on Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, the Administration's most virulent Viet Nam foe, and Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, the Republican candidate for the Neuberger Senate seat and a hot-and-cold-running critic of the war. To Morse, the war is "immoral and illegal." To Hatfield, the Administration's policies are bringing "neither victory nor solution...
...similarly restrained campaign for a house seat in a 47% Negro district, Banker Graves compiled 50.3% of the vote, polling 25% to 40% of the total in non-Negro precincts. Since neither faces a Republican opponent in November, their primary victories-the first that Southern Negroes have yet won outright in this year's campaign for state offices-assure both candidates of election...
...local elections, Alabama's Negroes voted with greater success. Fifty-two Negroes had filed for county or legislative offices; none won outright, but 24 at least managed to make the runoff elections on May 31. All face grueling man-to-man battles against white opponents. Even more significant in a sense were two Negro defeats. In the Black Belt's Wilcox and Greene Counties, where Negro voters outnumber whites, incumbent sheriffs-both white, both considered fair-minded law officers-faced Negro candidates for the first time. Far from affirming the bugaboo of Southern whites that "black votes mean...
...city after city, groups of the poor began demanding outright control of anti-poverty programs. Concluded one congressional aide: "We've funded a monster in community action. The programs are a bunch of Boston Tea Parties all around the country. They're creating a third force...
Harlech toresees "increasing concern" in Britain over American policy, but does not believe this concern will crystalize into outright opposition to American goals or tactics. He finds Wilson's support for the President's position "sincere" and thinks that neither the Prime Minister's increased prestige nor England's increased solvency will tempt the Labor front bench to break with Washington on Southeast Asian policy. Harlech discounts the possibility that a left-wing revolt in the Labor Party will soon force Wilson's hand. No more than thirty MP's would back such a revolt, Harlech estimates, and Wilson enjoys...