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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL RIGHTS: Questioned about the defiance by Alabama officials of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (see The South), President Eisenhower disappointingly declined "to get into the basic question." He did describe the Alabama situation as "a rather sad sort of thing," adding: "What I would like to get help in pleading for throughout the country is respect...
...Writing is Bad." The Negro witnesses' stories of Alabama's way of life in the mid-20th century called for action of some sort. Samples of discrimination...
...delegates seemed to have learned more from their disagreements than from their rantings against the colonialists. They decided to start a sort of permanent African GHQ of agitators to carry on their work, but always mindful of Nasser's muscle flexing; they set the next meeting of the conference in Tunis, an Arab capital now quarreling with Cairo. They recommended five regional federations, but these, they added, should be only between independent states and subject to the will of the people. More militantly, they called vaguely for the establishment of an "African Legion" composed of volunteers and talked...
Today the Rif mountains have become a sort of giant casbah, ruled by an underground that is becoming each day more highly organized. Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow received an anonymous phone call inviting him to visit their camp. A clandestine meeting with Riff leaders in Rabat was followed by a scribbled note of introduction in Arabic; he was led into the hills, first by car and then by mule, handed on from guide to guide. Rocks and bushes along the roads and paths turned out to be camouflaged tribesmen. Time after time he and his guides were stopped...
...maneuver he must; with Professor David Riesman, one of the Quincy associates, he is well into a ten day interview session hopefully pointing to final decisions and notifications before exam period. "I won't accept any more than eightly, and I'll have to demand some sort of commitment once a student had accepted my acceptance. If any drop out for good I can always fill in with more sophomores. Whatever happens we'll have 230 residents in the fall...