Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ADVOCATES (NET, 10-11 p.m.). The pros and cons of the Federal Government's right to continue issuing off-shore leases for oil drilling is up for public debate...
...many, many fields. Yet there are some areas so vastly complex that only a true specialist will do-to help and work with the editors in their weekly appraisal of the news. Thus last February, TIME contracted with the Louis Harris organization for a series of swift, meaningful public-opinion surveys on national issues as they arise. We believe that the six TIME-Louis Harris polls to date have enhanced everybody's understanding of what the country has been thinking about Viet Nam, changing morality, the Kennedy case, and confidence in the press...
...whole point of Washington is the symbolic confrontation, the possibility of violence we detest but feel we must not run from. The public still isn't interested in what we have to say: Politicians and the press talk about parade permits and troop concentrations; they still find it newsworthy that the demonstration will give aid and comfort to the "enemy." Violence may make the public close their ears to us, but nothing we can do will make them listen...
Meanwhile, 25 police remained on campus yesterday, guarding the construction site against any further Afro attempts to halt work on the project. The police will be withdrawn today, according to Paul Rich, director of the Office of Public Relations...
...group fears that a widespread display of NLF flags at the protest and a disproportionate number of speakers supporting the NLF will give the public the impression that the peace movement as a whole favors an NLF victory in Vietnam, Ratner said. The group also is worried by what it sees as the strong possibility of violence at the demonstration...