Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their way last week to demonstrate that such contingency plans might well be needed. In a speech in Warsaw, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev defiantly reasserted the new Soviet doctrine that has come to bear his name. Russia, he said, has the duty and the right to intervene not only in Communist countries like Czechoslovakia that are within the East bloc, but also, for that matter, in "any socialist country" where the forces of imperialism and capitalism and bourgeois revisionism threaten to make a come back. In repeating the justification for taking over in Czechoslovakia, Brezhnev cited a novel...
Ruling Style. Yet Caetano must walk a delicate line. He is probably in more danger from the right than from the splintered left. Portugal's great landowners and ultra-conservatives have a tendency toward panic, and if they thought Caetano were slipping even fractionally leftward, they might appeal to their army allies to intervene...
...civil rights advances in the Deep South, a harsh reality remains in Mississippi courts: white men accused of violent crimes against Negroes are almost never convicted. About the only time such offenders are punished is when they are tried in federal courts under statutes enacted during Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that...
...even bishops made it clear that they simply could not accept, without qualification, the teaching of Humanae Vitae. At the same time, many contended that their dissent in no way affected their standing as Catholics. By so doing, they raised much larger and more troubling questions about the rights of freedom v. authority in Catholicism-and the limitations on the Pope's right to speak as teacher for the church...
...suppose that I haven't dropped out of the church because of two main facts: first, after hearing so many people say the same thing so many times, I can't quite shake the feeling that they just might be right. No one has ever proved it, but maybe there is a fire on the other side. I feel that I've got to keep up the premiums, just in case. Second, I still feel that the church has a tremendous capacity to do good, if it can only orient itself to this era of history...