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...said, the major charge against him would be dropped. The defense, led by Charles Morgan Jr., southeastern regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was so astonished at the ruling that war-crimes evidence would be heard that it had none to offer immediately. Instead Morgan won a recess until this week and called on antiwar propagandists to volunteer proof of his statement: "I think we can prove there is a policy of eradication of the Vietnamese people who won't support our side...
...Berkeley's 27,000 students returned from a long Christmas recess last week, administrators, a few faculty members, and student government leaders worked furiously to complete a package of reforms that will, they think, avert any future violence on the campus...
Heyns and ASUC representatives, during their Christmas recess meetings, talked mostly about the constitution of this commission. McIntosh was concerned that the proposed commission, to be composed of five faculty members and five students, might be so dominated by the faculty that it would ignore student sentiment. This is precisely what happened to the doomed "Campus Rules Committee," another joint commission set up after FSM which was supposed to establish lines of communication between students and the university...
...that a Democratic presidential candidate had carried the state. By 1944, Lawrence had enough national clout to stem a convention tide favoring the renomination of Henry A. Wallace as F.D.R.'s Vice President. Amid a storm of boos on the convention floor. Lawrence demanded and won a recess. By the time the sessions resumed the next day, Wallace was out and Harry S Truman, a longtime crony of Lawrence...
...these things come and go so quickly is one of the world's largest questions," Prout said. He pointed out that an intestinal epidemic occurs every year just before Christmas. According to Health Service records, this year's epidemic was the first during Thanksgiving recess...