Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-imposed exile in Guinea. Fiery Berkeley Communist Bettina Aptheker in a house in San Jose to rear her child and write a book. Former S.D.S. President Carl Oglesby writing songs on a Vermont farm and lecturing at M.I.T. John Lewis, S.N.C.C. co-founder who once promised to sweep the civil rights movement "through the South the way Sherman did," is directing voter education in the South. Mario Savio is established in Berkeley, the city he shook in 1964 and now wants to lead as mayor...
...huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their own sake, all 16 of the current crew have been banished to the piney slopes of lower Bavaria...
...Clean Sweep? Conspiracy thus poses a legal dilemma. In its effort to cope with group crime, society tends to discard a basic premise of Anglo-American law: the presumption that an individual is innocent until proved guilty. Many legal scholars believe that jurors often regard conspiracy defendants as guilty until proved innocent. There is also rising concern about the Government's increasing use of conspiracy laws against leaders of dissident political groups. Indeed, some scholars agree with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who argues: "I would wipe the law clean of conspiracy; on balance, it does more harm than...
...buildup for the sweep into Laos began 10 days ago with the movement of 20,000 South Vietnamese troops and 9,000 U.S. troops into South Vietnam's northwest corner along the Laotian border...
...George Aiken (R-Vt.), ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Monday that he had been briefed late last week by State Department officials on an impending massive sweep of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the vicinity of the Laotian border...