Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of an urban improvement. Last year Addonizio designated 46 acres of the Central Ward as the new campus for the New Jersey State College of Medicine and Dentistry-a move that would force some 3,500 Negroes out of their homes. However dilapidated those dwellings might be, the threat raised hackles throughout the city. A subsequent proposal to extend two interstate highways that pass near Newark through the downtown area might displace 20,000 more Negroes. The resolution of these problems is not yet clear...
Psychological Advantage. Yet there have been some victories. When Rockefeller cracked down on illegal gambling in Hot Springs, the lawmakers responded with a bill to legalize casino operations. Rockefeller vetoed the measure and made the veto stick despite a threat to override it.* He won a much needed increase in teachers' salaries, a raise in welfare payments, creation of a department of administration to modernize operations of the state's 187 agencies, and establishment of a commission to study constitutional revision...
...offenders: fewer than 100 homosexuals have been convicted annually in Britain in recent years, and the occasional publicized case has evoked more public sympathy for the defendant than support for the prosecution. In fact, the new bill really frees homosexuals from the fear of blackmail rather than from the threat of criminal indictment. The law will still prohibit solicitation, and it increases penalties for acts against minors. It prohibits homosexual brothels and pimping. The law brings Britain in line with most of Western Europe, where restrictions have been eased everywhere except in West Germany. In the U.S., only Illinois...
Shortly before he reported for duty with his reserve unit during the six-day Arab-Israeli war, Hebrew University Scientist Isaac Harpaz, 42, proclaimed victory over a less obvious threat to his country. For several years hybrid corn plants in Israel-and in several European countries-had been under attack by a mysterious disease that dwarfed their growth, roughened their leaves and often completely destroyed them. The disease has now been routed, Harpaz reported, by his discovery that a little procrastination in planting will pay large dividends in healthy corn...
...state and county chairmen whose votes often determine the nominees. But there is a significant difference from 1964. Then, Goldwater stood unchallenged as the champion of the G.O.P.'s conservative wing, thus was able to prevail over the badly fragmented moderates. Now, Reagan's ascendancy poses the threat of a conservative split. Reagan, in fact, said of Nixon to one Republican Governor: "This guy's a loser. Any guy who can lose to Pat Brown can't win the presidency...