Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, the main reason for Nixon's choice?Burger's stand on law and order ?may seem far less important than it does today. New issues and new problems almost certainly will arise, and may very well overshadow the controversies of today. The question before the court of the '70s may not be criminal rights but citizen rights. Columbia Political Scientist Alan Westin, for instance, sees an impending collision between the old system of government, which depends upon political parties and established bureaucracy, and the new demands for participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant...
Upcoming municipal elections should help to prevent violence in some cities, particularly where blacks hold or seek high office. Newark Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city...
...dramatic intervention did not faze Walker. As expected, the judge denied both the motion for reducing the death sentence and a plea for a new trial. "It is the feeling of this court that the jury was right," he explained. "I find no reason to change my mind now." Sirhan smiled, shrugged his shoulders and was taken to San Quentin Prison's death row. There he will await the outcome of lengthy appeal proceedings. Defense Investigator Michael McCowan quoted Sirhan as saying: "Well, now the real battle begins...
Poher, by contrast, strove to explain "why an unknown such as myself had the audacity to enter the presidential race" and read on television one of the fan letters he had received urging him to run ("You have brought us reason to be courageous and hopeful"). Poher offered a platform that was the antithesis of Gaullism. He promised to do away with "prestige projects" and suggested that France could not afford De Gaulle's vaunted force de frappe. He also pledged a "profound change" in foreign policy, and to work for a united Europe for the "future...
Actually, the sales had been suspended last February with the seizure of the first U.S. boat. Peru's Dictator General Juan Velasco Alvarado was informed privately that the Pelly amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968 left Washington no alternative. For some reason, Velasco had neglected to inform his countrymen, and last week's disclosure from Washington brought a rush of questions in Lima. Velasco held a twelve-hour huddle with his Cabinet and produced a six point communiqué. If the ban on shipments is officially confirmed, it read, then the U.S. military missions currently...