Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June Party leaders laid plans to train the Freedom delegation at the Highlander Folk Center in Nashville just prior to the National Convention. When several sympathetic Northern politicians disapproved, citing the Communist connotations of the Center, a Party official snapped coldly, "So you want us to yield to McCarthyism...
...sorts: Dr. Nguyen Xuan Oanh. 43, who was Khanh's Vice-Premier for Finance. Oanh (pronounced Juan) announced that he had been appointed "Acting Premier" by the 60-day caretaker regime. A Harvard-trained Ph.D. in economics, who was out of Viet Nam for 16 years prior to Diem's fall, Oanh taught economics at Connecticut's Trinity College for five years, later worked for the U.N.'s International Monetary Fund. He is an amateur artist, is so Americanized that he is known affectionately in Saigon's U.S. colony as "Jack Owen," after his last...
...speech and press, the Supreme Court has cast obscenity outside these rights, just as it does incitement to violence or publication of military secrets. But one trouble is that many cities and states have tried to suppress smut even before it reaches the public. This the court calls "prior restraint," meaning that a state invades freedom of expression if it bans obscenity on such vague grounds as "objectionable" before proving its case in a legal hearing...
...Central Investigating Committee. Brazilians could put it another way: compared with corruption, practically everything in Brazil has been insignificant. When the new government of President Humberto Castello Branco had completed its housecleaning with a tenth and final political "blacklist" of prominent Brazilians accused of Communism or corruption prior to the overthrow of President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, corruption indeed seemed to have first rank...
...Catholics staged a unity march in Saigon, which was orderly except for a militant minority that carried banners urging U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to GO HOME. Many Catholics believe thai odge was instrumental in the U.S. decision to curtail aid to Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem prior to Diem's overthrow and murder. However, others in the crowd tore down the anti-Lodge signs...