Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minority Leader Everett Dirksen combined to shield Nixon from a TV debate by killing a bill, already passed by the House, that would have cleared the way for the encounter by temporarily suspending FCC equal-time regulations. Dirksen pointed out that Senate Democrats, including Hubert Humphrey, had opposed a similar bill four years ago to permit debates between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater -and had done so for the same tactical reasons. Dirksen might also have noted that when Humphrey was in the lead during contention for the Democratic nomination, he steadfastly refused to tangle with Eugene McCarthy and Robert...
...general hospital in 1965. While working there Mrs. Jermany, who is black, acted on the principle that welfare recipients were no different from other people except that they needed help. She makes this point now through the 25,000-member national Welfare Rights Organization, which developed from her own similar organization in Los Angeles. "Part of our work," she says, "is giving welfare recipients the self-confidence to stand up to the county social workers as equals instead of doing whatever they say, like dogs. We make sure our members understand the welfare laws and know what's coming...
...states (Colorado, North Carolina and Maryland). Three years ago, a few California doctors challenged their own state's restrictive abortion law by publicly announcing that they had aborted German-measles victims.* Now, a California superior court has handed down a ruling that contradicts the California law and challenges similar laws in other states as well. Not only do many doctors regard such abortions as accepted medical practice, declared Judge Andrew J. Eyman, but laws that deny them to women are a clear violation of their constitutional rights. For his authority, he cited the Eighth Amendment (which forbids "cruel...
...Similar joint ventures have been set up in dozens of other cities. E.G. & G., the company that triggers atom-bomb blasts for the Atomic Energy Commission, has a Negro-managed subsidiary that is building a metal-fabricating plant in Boston's Roxbury Negro district. In San Francisco, Safeway Stores has rescued a ghetto cooperative supermarket from the brink of bankruptcy, even though the store competes with a Safeway outlet ten blocks away...
Though intriguing, Lifton's thesis is simply a psychiatric twist on similar findings of other China-watchers. It is not new, just considerably more arcane; observers have duly noted similar death rattles in Communist revolutionaries from Marx to Castro...