Word: representation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The controversy began even before the hearing. The American Civil Liberties Union, which supplied a half-dozen lawyers to represent twelve hostile witnesses, brought suit in Federal Court to prevent the questioning of witnesses on constitutional grounds. The A.C.L.U. charged, even before the hearing opened, that it would exert "an...
Backward Clocks. Another debate rages over the FBI's "crime clocks." In tallying crimes against the person, the 1964 crime clock registered one murder every hour, one robbery every five minutes, one aggravated assault every three minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says...
These standards call for jury lists that represent as high a degree of integrity, intelligence, morality and common sense as possible."
To explain this overreaction is difficult. The simplest, if not the most complete, explanation is that the marchers represent a real or imagined threat much larger than their own numbers. There is little discrimination between types of protest; this march is like all the others, and represents all others. Or...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler took another tack. Contingency planning, he said, should begin as soon as possible and involve poor nations as well as rich. By last week's vote, the Ten agreed not only to continue seeking some kind of reform but also to broaden deliberations by...