Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traffic keeps border patrols busy from Brownsville, Texas, to Chula Vista, Calif. Last week patrols near San Antonio intercepted two camper trucks, one containing 15 wetbacks, the other 17. All but a handful of the illegal immigrants are simply sent back across the border, but many return. They have become a special curse to the A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California...
Though the Moscow meeting had been twice postponed by disagreement on the agenda, both sides had ample reason for wanting to hold it. In return for rolling back much of the liberalization of his early regime, Dubček is anxious for Russia to begin withdrawing most of the 275,000 Warsaw Pact troops still encamped on Czechoslovak soil. The Kremlin, on the other hand, is far from pleased with the pace of what the Russians call the "normalization" of Czechoslovak life. In particular, they resent the halfhearted censorship that permits most Czechoslovak news media to continue making subtle gibes...
Papadopoulos' attitude was a disappointment for some Greeks, who had voted NAÍ (yes) in the hope that the new constitution would be a first step toward a return to representational government. Many more Greeks, however, voted NAÍ mainly because they felt that it would be highly imprudent not to do so. In the countryside, where the junta's rule is especially entrenched, voters were handed only the NAÍ ballot by the election officials, and few voters dared ask for the ÓX1 (no) ballots, which were kept out of their reach. At some polling stations...
...welcomed "the new willingness" of Congress and the President to share in the task through civil rights legislation. Pointing out that court decisions have helped awaken the nation's conscience, Fortas said that the past 15 years have brought "the revitalization of the 14th Amendment and a return to the Constitution." But he warned of "a new and savage struggle between freedom's believers and its destroyers...
...through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...