Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro demands by voting for liberals and financing civil rights causes. It was all very well for Lindsay to be one of the most assertive members of the Kerner Commission and for his aides to take as gospel the commission's key argument: that white racism is at the root of much urban turmoil. Except for the intellectuals and the ultra-liberals?who are already Lindsay supporters?most white New Yorkers do not accept that contention. Marchi says that the commission report was "useful." But he adds: "Unlike some other people, I feel no personal sense of guilt. I have...
Whether or not Pompidou's ploy works, it was plain that the unequal distribution of wealth in France-and elsewhere-was one of the root causes of the current unrest. Said Political Commentator Jean Ferniot: "The war has moved from the political to the social battlefield." And, as in beleaguered Britain, nobody can be sure where the next skirmish might break...
...become for me that great, awesome burden that some have described it." His actions seem to support the words. The presidency has made a regular golfer of Nixon, who, as a private citizen, found golf "a waste of time." He has taken some evenings off this season to root for the Washington Senators, and will doubtless keep a number of his Sunday afternoons free this fall to watch the Washington Redskins. The White House operated half days for a month from California. Last week, after his reception for U.N. delegates, Nixon took Secretary of State William Rogers, Adviser Henry Kissinger...
...standard speech on the rights of dissenters v. the rights of the community. No. such platitudes for Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. In his welcoming address to Yale's 1,250 freshmen last week, the Ivy League's least beleaguered president faced up to the root causes of student unrest with candor and conviction...
Since crime on the streets is a smoldering political issue, the Cosa Nostra and its narcotics traffic should be included as a root cause...