Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foregone conclusion; the only question was how large his vote would be. As it happened, he beat two non-campaigning nonentities by a lopsided margin of nearly 7 to 1. But the results hardly seemed to bear out tales of uncontrollable rage among Negroes at Powell's treatment in Washington. Only 32,418 of Harlem's 126,-529 registered voters bothered to go to the polls-compared with 60,688 last year...
...Christ have sided with a militant Negro organization called FIGHT in a dispute with the Eastman Kodak Co., which is being accused of discriminating against hiring Negroes. Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Catholic Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit have announced that they will give preferential treatment to suppliers who give equal opportunity to members of minorities. In innumerable communities, churchmen are fighting for open housing. It is the struggle for civil rights that has most visibly changed the U.S. churches' style and approach, and has given at least some of them a chance to consider themselves...
Embittered by this contemptuous treatment, and under pressure from their Russian allies, who fear a revival of German power, the leaders of East Germany are in no hurry to be reunited with the West. Their economic recovery after the war, while not quite as miraculous as West Germany's, has been extraordinarily rapid. Before the war the eastern states of Germany were primarily agricultural with some light industry. Now the world's eighth most industralized country. East Germany has huge steel and petro-chemical installations, and is Russia's most important trading partner. Its citizens have the highest standard...
...committed their peoples to a "substantially operating common market" by 1985. And the United States firmly but politely let it be known that it supported the principle of preferential tariff policy by all industrialized nations toward the entire underdeveloped world, but would not accept Latin American demands for preferential treatment in U.S. markets. We do not wish to see the world economy split into two mutually exclusive trading zones - one in the Western Hemisphere, and another between Europe and her former colonies in Africa...
...ratify this commitment. And on the second point - tariff policy - it is difficult to see why the meeting should have been held before the conclusion of the Kennedy Round in Geneva, that is, before we see whether our allies in Europe are willing to relax their exclusive preferential treatment of goods from Africa...