Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Battle-Scarred Question. The Supreme Court based its decisions on the very first provision of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Required prayers or Bible readings in public schools, the court held, amount to an "establishment." Since the schools concerned in the cases...
By a 7-2 roll-call vote, the Council waived a provision in state law that requires it to mail notices of a referendum to all registered voters at least seven days before an election. The waiver, which followed a brief hearing, spared the City the problem of finding $5000...
"I am sorry the Attorney General opposes extension of the literacy test provision to include State elections as well as Federal elections. I am also sorry that he does not want the power to initiate equity proceedings in cases where State officials are persistently acting to deprive persons of their...
The last time the membership list provision was protested was in 1952. At that time, three pro-Soviet groups, the John Reed Club, the Young Progressives, and the Harvard Youth for Democracy disbanded after the Faculty Committee decided against changing the rule.
If the guerrillas would agree to a cease fire contingent upon provision for internationally supervised elections (and their propaganda supports this) American withdrawal of military aid would force Diem either to accept the elections or to leave. In any case this possibility should be at least explored. The status quo...