Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accurate reading of the Constitution does not permit such indulgences. Black has refused to stand against electronic eavesdropping because he concludes that since the framers of the Constitution said nothing about privacy, they did not mean to protect it. "Even though I like my privacy as well as the next...
The President of Panama was impeached last week. The charge: that he violated a constitutional provision that prohibits the President from giving "direct or indirect official aid to a candidate." President Marco Aurelio Robles, 62, who cannot succeed himself by law and thus is not running in the May 12...
The toughest fight was prompted by Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who proposed to exempt from the open-housing provision certain privately owned one-family units. Several Republican conservatives, notably South Dakota's Karl Mundt, had demanded the Baker amendment as a condition for...
Equal Time. The latest hassle concerns the commission's "fairness doctrine." Under its equal-time provision, a station that puts one political candidate on the air (except in a news show) must give comparable exposure to his opponents. In the most publicized of what will undoubtedly be many legal...
Another provision of the fairness rule -obligating stations to offer reply time to victims of "personal attack"-is now also being challenged in the courts by the networks on the ground that the procedure inhibits free speech. Last week, in a typical retreat, the FCC asked that the decision be...