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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message, the President emphasized the need for early rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents, before they become habitual lawbreakers. His concern was understandable. Nixon had received a progress report from the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, which ranks the U.S. high among the Western democracies in the incidence of violence, whether the category is crime or civil strife. In both, but particularly in crime, the report identified the principal culprit: the young...
...Faculty than you would concede to alumni or the government. Your stake in the defense of scholarship against the pressure to serve any cause or interest whatsoever is as great as the Faculty's stake; after all, we have had our university training, yours is still in progress. You should support the position that professors should speak their minds and should be selected solely for their scholarly competence. It is for your sake that the Faculty resists being bent to the interests of either businessmen or blacks...
...pacifist stand prompted him to seek nonviolent means of direct political action for the Negro's civil rights. He began to read Gandhi. Distressed by the lack of progress in integration, he and his friends decided to form a nonviolent organization that would preach civil disobedience. That was the beginning of CORE and also the beginning of the sit-ins. "The Movement really began in the early 'forties. Up until that time, all blacks participated in segregation at least passively. It was important that we should not lend ourselves to the evil we condemned...
...evidence of progress - it could hardly be called a breakthrough - was the appointment by the Vatican of five new bishops and five new apostolic administrators to Hungarian sees. Under terms of the 1964 agreement, the Hungarian government must approve such appointments, and the matter had long been stalled in frustrating discussions between the Vatican and the regime of Party Chief Janos Kadar. In the style of such negotiations, the outcome was no clear-cut victory for anyone, but more of an elaborate Hungarian folk dance, in which at least one prominent step must be to the left...
...inch of progress is an accurate measure of what the Vatican has tried to accomplish in other areas of Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...