Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations on a well-rounded appraisal of Judge Warren E. Burger [May 30]. The opinions that stand out underscore his integrity, professional idealism, and open-mindedness as a judge. But you could not be more wrong in characterizing him as "nonimaginative" and "noninnovative." We who have watched his work can testify to the imaginativeness and innovativeness in his approach to criminal justice and to his concern for the individual. This is clear enough from his opinions, but is striking in the work he has done to help reform the standards of criminal justice through a major A.B.A. committee...
...party of progress and change." No such programs have materialized. Kennedy's viewpoint has considerable support, but not among the majority of committee chairmen, who retain much of the legislative power. One Democratic chairman, Carl Perkins of the House Education and Labor Committee, attempted to take an independent stand on an important education bill, extending the authorization for federal assistance from two years to five. A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats easily defeated the move...
...aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne, dined on board in Manila Bay with several allied naval officers. Talk turned to the somber subject of collision. Five years earlier, Melbourne had sliced into an Australian destroyer, and 82 hands had been lost. Stevenson said that his country's morale could not stand another such mishap involving the fleet's flagship. Four nights later, his fears became fact...
...Secretary Konstantin Katushev is in charge of relations with ruling Communist parties, while Boris Ponomarev attends to the affairs of the nonruling parties, and both are busy all year long as hosts or traveling salesmen. Their emissaries try to influence developments within the parties. After Luigi Longo's strong stand against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Embassy in Rome distributed a pamphlet criticizing the Italian party leader ?and cut back on aid to the Italians...
...unrest in response to the Rockefeller visit. In any case, some Chileans felt that a visit from President Nixon's envoy would be superfluous: this week, Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés, acting on behalf of all Latin American countries, will present the President with a common-stand position paper that proposes new foundations-particularly in the economic field-for U.S.-Latin American relations...