Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweden last week chose a Social Democrat as leader, right in step with the West Germans. But Sweden's Social Democrats have been in power for 37 years, save for a 100-day lapse in 1936, and their new Prime Minister is 13 years younger, and somewhat livelier, than is Willy Brandt. As Minister of Communications, Olof Palme helped steer the country from left-to right-hand traffic in 1967. According to his critics, that was the only time Olof has moved away from the left since he started shaving. Conservatives in his own country call him a renegade...
...RACIAL EQUALITY. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyers have asked the court for a prompt ruling on the recent delay in desegregating Mississippi's schools. If the court agrees to hear the case, the result could be an early clash with the Nixon Administration, which took the unprecedented step of requesting the halt. Justice Hugo Black, who supervises the Deep South Fifth Circuit for the high court, has asked the Government to reply to the fund's petition by Oct. 8. Last week Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard asserted that a decision to compel desegregation throughout the South...
...most members were personally ready to oppose the war, a large group of them feared the damage a "political" vote might do to the Faculty's academic integrity. Their fears were not well-grounded: if a Faculty member can admit there are some conceivable circumstances that might justify a step away from neutrality, then he should see that the Vietnam War calls for such a step...
...Generally I am deeply opposed to political motions, but Vietnam has had a more divisive effect on American life than anything since the Civil War," Edsall stated. "The circumstances are so extraordinary that I feel justified in taking this once-in-a-lifetime step...
...Kunstler, an attorney for Black Panther Bobby Seale, also condemned the Chicago press for their attacks on the Chicago conspiracy trial's defense lawyers. Moderator Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, also condemned the press, saying that "the first step in the process of tyranny is the harassment of lawyers...