Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sincere .desires of the four parties concerned to achieve a "just and honorable peace." It seems absurd that mature men, especially those honored in the ranks of world diplomacy and charged with the awesome responsibility of ending a war that has become one of the most unpopular and ethically debatable in history, could spend months haggling over such minuscule points of procedure as the shape of the conference table and the number of doors leading to the main hall. It was estimated that the number of allied and enemy casualties during the week of Nov. 24 well exceeded...
...turned down. The most obvious explanation, that Rostow was blackballed for his hard line on Viet Nam, caused the New York Times's James Reston to write last week: "Is a man to be punished for beliefs sincerely held in public service if those beliefs happen to be unpopular in some university circles...
Wherever there is an unpopular cause that most lawyers would not dare touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...
...Deputies decided to hop from one city to another, their independence encouraged by the fact that many are from the provinces and have their own local bases of power away from Madrid. Before long, the statements they usually issue after each session were taking strong exception to such unpopular Cortes measures as the "regressive" Official Secrets Law and the 1968-69 national budget, and a delighted press could hardly wait to headline the latest blast from los trashumantes sin rodeos (the nomads who don't beat around the bush...
...President reasoned, Humphrey could become majority leader, giving L.B.J. far more forceful Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller to join him on a unity ticket. Humphrey aides denied it, insisted that the Vice President always wanted Maine...