Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impression left to the observer is that what happened this summer in Byhalia is slightly anachronistic. The tactics of boycott, the picket signs demanding racial equality, the stridence of black demands, the inability of whites to respond--all are problems that confronted the South ten years ago, and were seemingly solved...
Whatever the number of men who finally respond by the Jan. 31, 1975 deadline, the case-by-case review is certain to be a difficult task. To assess accurately the motives of men who evaded service as long as five years ago may prove impossible. There is a problem of equity too for the many men who sought status as conscientious objectors and would have served 24 months in alternate work, but were denied that classification by local draft boards. To ask them to take menial jobs now, when they have acquired careers and families, seems harsh. Many also became...
...Administration did not respond immediately to the other ideas. Housing and Urban Development Secretary James T. Lynn, who chaired the meet ing, said that he had come "to listen, not to talk." But he left the conferees with one final bleak thought: even if programs of special help to construction are enacted immediately, they "would have no drastic effect for four or five months...
Cynthia von Thuna, assistant to the director of the Carpenter Center, said Tuesday that the police version of the time it took to respond to the call was "a complete lie," and stuck by her earlier allegations that no police had arrived until "at least ten minutes" after they had been called...
...year's end. The appointment may have a profound effect on the future of the controversies that have enveloped DuBois since 1969, since statements from Mass Hall indicate that the new director will have broad discretion in setting institute policy. During the spring, Bok and Leonard declined to respond to United Committee of Third World Organizations requests that DuBois provide summer research grants for students because neither administrator wanted to "tie the new director's hands" on specific matters of procedure...