Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first to admit that in practical terms she can not initiate any legislation which would pass or stop apartheid bills, Mrs. Suzman is convinced that even if she is only a token, it is important to keep the voice of liberalism alive. Another function which she feels she performs is continuing to elicit information from the government, information which without her questioning, would never be aired...
...results of the pass laws is that they have led to wide arrests of Blacks for comparatively trivial misdemeanors like being in the wrong part of town without a pass. They also allow the white police to stop any African at will and demand his papers. The jail population is somewhere near 75,000, and there were 123 people executed in South Africa last year...
Another University rule, that the Dean's office must have a complete list of officers and members, may be re-evaluated this year. Last summer, the American Council of Education, one of the nation's largest and most respected organizations of university leaders, urged colleges and universities to stop keeping lists of students participating in undergraduate political organizations. The Council's new policy was a direct challenge to the House Committee on Un-American Affairs, which in the 1966 summer subpeonaed membership lists of leftwing student political groups from Stanford, Michigan, and Berkeley...
...common feeling among police that federal crime and gun laws would infringe on local authority, L.B.J. assured the chiefs: "I did not propose that the Federal Government take over the job of dealing with crime in the streets. Washington cannot patrol a neighborhood in the Far West, stop a burglary in the South, or prevent a riot in a great metropolis...
Three times the JPL controllers ordered Surveyor's verniers to fire, hoping to jar the sticky valve shut. The leakage slowed but did not stop. Within an hour, helium pressure had dropped from 5,000 lbs. to 3,000 lbs. per sq. in. Dejectedly, some JPL scientists suggested that it would be best to fire Surveyor's retrorocket immediately, placing the craft in high earth orbit. It would be preferable to have a live spacecraft in orbit, they argued, than a dead one on the surface of the moon...