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...nothing policy. It had to work, like a Catholic marriage or a parachute." But when the Buddhist crisis ignited in May 1963, the policy went up in flames. What began as a seemingly simple dispute over the display of religious flags soon became a cleverly conducted campaign to unseat Catholic Diem. U.S. reporters fanned the flames with pro-Buddhist stories that enraged Diem, who refused to believe that Washington did not control the press in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Undone by a Coup | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

Election campaigns seldom leave tangible results--especially unsuccessful ones. But Noel Day's attempt to unseat House Speaker John W. McCormack last fall, while an electoral failure (he received less than ten per cent of the votes), gave birth to a bold experiment in organizing poor Negroes and whites in the North...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Action Center Organizes Poor On Economic, Not Racial, Basis | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...judge who deals daily with the lives, liberty and property of people forced to come before him may have been appointed for life. If so, he can be fired only for gross misconduct. If he has been elected, it usually takes some sort of major scandal to unseat him. Is there no other way by which the honest but unfit judge can be removed from the bench when necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Remedy for Unfitness | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee will not recruit volunteers for a Mississippi summer project unless Negro leaders of each locality specifically request them, officials revealed yesterday. Instead, SNCC plans to recruit 2000 students to work in Washington, aiding the Mississippi Democratic Party's attempt to unseat the state's five congressmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNCC Shifts Emphasis to Outsting Miss. Congressmen | 2/25/1965 | See Source »

...session, part of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's drive to unseat Mississippi's five congressmen, was held to gather evidence of racial discrimination in voter registration...

Author: By Andre D. Swettham, | Title: Witnesses Tell Hearing Of Miss. Voting Abuses | 2/13/1965 | See Source »

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