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...verdict that many Detroiters applauded, the jury unanimously found Johnson not guilty by reason of insanity. As a result, he was committed to a mental hospital last week. Meanwhile at the axle plant, fights and general unrest have mounted ever since the murders. The foremen no longer wear white shirts...
...state senate and four years as lieutenant governor. In a gubernatorial campaign rife with racial overtones, West displayed a commendable combination of traditional Southern eloquence and a considered program for his state's future. His opponent, Republican Congressman Albert Watson, repeatedly played on the racist theme of unrest in South Carolina's desegregated schools. West calmly denounced such emotional exploitation and mapped out an intelligent program for solving the state's economic, educational and health problems. The voters responded by giving the affable Presbyterian elder a 53% majority...
...times Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 52, tries to minimize the growing unrest among the country's 39 million people. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar in Manila's Malacanang Palace, Marcos insisted: "There's not as much turbulence here, I would say, as in some Western countries, perhaps the U.S. and Belfast, Ireland." But at other times Marcos concedes that Philippine society is "sick, so sick that it must either be cured now or buried in a deluge of reforms...
...timetable may well depend on how well Lanusse, 52, deals with the economic ills that accompany Argentina's political unrest. In the face of mounting inflation, Lanusse repealed a government decree that kept a ceiling of 19% on wage increases. He had little choice; union leaders in riot-plagued Cordoba had promised more violence unless the wage ceiling was abolished...
Goheen wanted to end his term three years ago, but assorted campus revolts influenced him and he held on. "It did not seem right," he said last week, "to give up the helm while the university was being shaken by widespread unrest and was still developing more responsive and effective procedures for governance." Though Princeton students are still protesting against the war and the school's involvement in Government research projects, Goheen is convinced that the big crunch is over and that his major reforms are well under...