Word: protesting
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Hoping to cool the nationalistic temper surrounding the bill, the State Department issued a strong formal protest; it reminded Canada that its own huge banking interests in the U.S. - including about half the lucrative Wall Street call-loan market - amount to some $1.6 bil lion and hinted at possible reprisal. The note did not find a welcome. When one high-ranking U.S. diplomat explained the U.S. position in Ottawa, he was told, "Don't be a bloody fool...
Even when he criticizes, McCarthy remains gentle and good-humored. He was amused, for example, to hear of the protest which McNamara faced when he came to Harvard for the Kennedy Institute of Politics this fall. "I am not surprised that McNamara's attitude toward the demonstrators was somewhat abrasive," he said, "since that's the way he treats most Senators...
Almost certainly, it was the speed with which such programs have been expanding that persuaded the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. to protest last month against "coercive" federal programs (TIME, Dec. 2). Other critics complain that free federal contraceptive aid would be the biggest boon to promiscuity since the back seat of the automobile. Some black nationalists charge that birth-control programs, because they affect large numbers of Negro welfare recipients, are a plot to exterminate the black race...
...unlawful demonstrations, U.S. police face a tougher task: they must keep order while protecting peaceful demonstrators' constitutional rights. And many police efforts are embarrassing failures. Although good intelligence work prevents and solves crime, few police can afford the time to study the widely varying plans and personalities of protest groups. As a result, they often send too few men to shield pickets from counter-pickets, or they go to the other extreme and send so many that they cripple law enforcement elsewhere. Worse, too many police respond too readily to demonstrators' taunts. And when choleric cops blow their...
...kind as a corporate body," he said in a statement. "Such debate would lead to the politicization of the University, with great damage to its effectiveness as an institution of teaching and research." Landes agreed that the 2-S deferment is unjust, but said that the proper way to protest it "is to write or speak, personally or as a group, to the public authorities and to our representatives in the Congress...