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Still, everywhere I visited on the journey to Dacca, I found astonishing unanimity on the Bengali desire for independence and a determination to resist the Pakistan army with whatever means available. "We will not be slaves," said one resistance officer, "so there is no choice but to fight until we win." The oncoming monsoon rains and the Islamabad government's financial problems will also work in favor of Bangla Desh. As the months pass and such hardships increase, Islamabad may have to face the fact that unity by force of arms is not exactly the Pakistan that Jinnah...
Robe Dragging. Other judges are not so able to resist community pressure or go beyond long-held beliefs. After the first Supreme Court desegregation decisions in the 1950s, many Southern district judges dragged their feet, their robes, their dignity and anything else that came to hand in an effort to slow or reverse the course of integration. In Dallas in 1960, for example, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, then 83, ruled that a plan promising complete desegregation by 1973 was unacceptable-because the school board was moving too fast. Higher courts reversed rulings in the case at least five times...
Demonstrators were warned ahead of time that they should clear the areas in front of the doors or face arrest. When police moved in, the demonstrators did not resist although a few went limp...
...memo is one of a packet of eight documents released last night by RESIST. a Cambridge-based antiwar group. RESIST has now made available five such packets, which consist of documents taken by an undercover group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate...
Members of RESIST said last night that this document is particularly significant because it reveals that raids on local draft boards are much more damaging to Selective Service information banks than federal officials have publicly admitted...