Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal Communications Commission turned down a complaint by a group of blacks against a Mississippi radio station that they charged was racist, Burger, speaking for his court, affirmed the citizens' rights to challenge the FCC's renewal of a license. His decision, says an admiring lawyer, brought the public into an area that was until then the exclusive preserve of Government and industry...
After the trial began, Ted Kennedy confided to members of the family his conviction that the Kennedys' position should be made public at the right moment. As a lawyer, he knew that it would be out of place to make a statement until the trial was over and the sentence imposed. Then there would be time for the judge to soften the sentence, or for a reprieve from the Governor...
...questions are vital, but the answers are hard to come by. Though the Communists are fully aware of the domestic pressures in the U.S. to settle the war, and try to manipulate American public opinion to their own advantage, the American negotiators have only the scantiest information about the mood of North Viet Nam or how that mood might affect the Communists' bargaining position. About all that U.S. policymakers can do is ponder the clues that slip out of Ho Chi Minh's secretive land by means of foreign visitors, an occasional defector, and the North...
...wives of the fate of their dead sons and husbands. Possibly Hanoi's silence on the subject indicates that the government fears popular reaction to the big losses. On the other hand, the regime's behavior may simply indicate that it does not have to take public opinion into consideration...
...troops in South Viet Nam?" The editor's reply was strictly party-line-that the U.S. is a huge industrial country that is able to mobilize great resources by draining its colonies. The interesting point was that the regime allowed such a question to be raised in public...