Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome played around with this and the Roman Empire fell. Unless we resist this, the United States is going down." So argued Representative Lawrence P. Smith last August in opposition to a bill to amend the 19th century law prohibiting birth control in Massachusetts. The Representative's keen historical insight apparently had its impact, for the amendment was defeated by a vote...
...political opposition and run Uganda on a one-party basis under the domination of his fellow Nilotic tribesmen of the north. Trouble is that a split recently began developing even in his own Uganda People's Congress, caused by a group of Bantu Cabinet ministers determined to resist control by the northerners. The split widened last month when the anti-Obote faction supported the charge in Parliament by an opposition party leader that the Prime Minister, two of his ministers, and the deputy army commander had illegally shared a $325,000 windfall that was captured from Simba rebels...
Rusk cited two major documents as legal justification for U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. One was the congressionally approved 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing the President to take "all necessary measures" to resist aggression in Southeast Asia. The other was the 1954 Southeast Asia Treaty...
Organization pact, authorizing any or all of its eight members to resist aggression against the nations under its protective umbrella, including South Viet Nam. Referring to the Senate's 82-to-l consent to the treaty in 1955, Rusk gently reminded them: "All members of this distinguished committee who were then Senators voted for that treaty...
...already lost too much power to the executive. "I can't imagine a better argument against the proposal than that," retorted Virginia Republican Richard Poff, a onetime supporter of the amendment. "I think it is the function of the legislative branch to defy, when necessary, the executive, to resist soli darity with...