Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week stocky, square-jawed-and somewhat square-Fred Harris, at 37 the second youngest U.S. Senator (after Ted Kennedy), achieved national prominence as a result of his influential role within the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Said a commission staffer: "He was a conscience to all of us and a prod to crystallizing a unifying view." That view, reflected in the commission's report, is not universally applauded-as Harris foresaw. To those who were queasy about castigating racism in American society, Harris snapped: "It strikes me that no one in this country is poor because...
...reelection. Last week he waited until 17 minutes before the filing deadline to notify Massachusetts State Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman that neither he nor any stand-in would oppose Eugene McCarthy in the April 30 presidential primary. Not only is the Massachusetts party organization confused and bitter as a result, but under the terms of a new state law, Senator McCarthy is also guaranteed all Massachusetts' 72 delegate votes on the first ballot at the convention...
Neither civilian rulers such as Indira Gandhi nor the generals who have taken over from the postcolonial politicians in many South Asian nations have had much success in changing these attitudes. The result is that the best-laid, often Western-tutored, economic plans consistently go awry. Whether military or civilian, nominally capitalist or self-styled socialist, "the various political systems in the region are strikingly similar in their inability or unwillingness to institute fundamental reforms and enforce social discipline. They are all in this sense 'soft states.' " And, adds Myrdal: "There is little hope in South Asia...
...result of this impasse was a postconference communique that was considerably blander than Russia would have liked. The only strong point was an expectable attack on U.S. policy in Viet Nam; West Germany and Israel were not even mentioned. Most significantly, Rumania withheld its signature from an endorsement of the nonproliferation treaty, while everyone else signed it. That was an open admission that, for the time being at least, Russia and Rumania have agreed to disagree, rather than to disengage, on some important issues...
...doomsday have compiled a notoriously bad record. Now two scientists, influenced more by precise data than by intuition, have picked a date when life on earth may be seriously threatened if not doomed. By A.D. 3991, they say, the earth's magnetic field may have substantially disappeared. The result, some scientists think, could be catastrophic mutation of plant and animal life and widespread climatic changes...