Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call to Prague. The President and his advisers were aware that no matter when the bombing was resumed, there would be howls of protest from an assortment of students and statesmen, professors and preachers. Last May, Johnson was more criticized than cheered for ordering a pause in the bombing and ending it after only five days. Similarly, he was faulted last week because he was considering ending the latest pause after only "a brief, one-month trial." There would undoubtedly be complaints if he ended the pause after six months. Said one Columbia University scholar: "The more...
...Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, Katzenbach found Thompson's prison record "disqualifying" under the regulation. Katzenbach's ruling was cheered by veterans' organizations and hissed by word warriors of the left. Said Florida's Democratic Representative Charles Bennett, who had taken the House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson's widow Sylvia...
Appears Under Protest...
Before Curry spoke, his lawyer, Francis J. Roche, declared that the suspended manager was appearing under protest. Roche argued that the removal proceeding, taken under the City's charter, was preempted by another law which protects veterans in governmental service from arbitrary dismissal. "Curry served in World War I, and does not waive...his legal right as a war veteran," Roche said. He demanded a hearing under this procedure, which, he said, would make it more difficult for the Council to dismiss Curry...
...completely-and ridicule-the battery of psychological tests administered to most federal employees, particularly the personal and simplistic questions about each individual's sex life. (Sample: True or False? Once in a while I think of things too bad to talk about.) Ridgeway's article-plus the protest of much of the rest of the press-led to a congressional investigation, and the Civil Service Commission now bans all such tests for the 86% of federal employees under its jurisdiction...