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Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ruled that the University of Mississippi must admit Negro Air Force Veteran James Meredith. But Democratic Governor Ross Barnett has no intention of complying. He demanded that all state officials "uphold and enforce the laws duly and legally enacted by the legislature . . . and interpose state sovereignty and themselves between the people of the state and any body politically seeking to usurp such power." In invoking the doctrine of "interposition," which has been held unconstitutional, Barnett declaimed that "there is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration," promised that "we will...
...seminaries are to uphold the old Protestant tradition, he says, they must rehabilitate the ideal of the ministerial scholar-and provide him with the right kind of education. "The traditional theological disciplines," Berger insists, "must regain their central position . . . There must be an end to the grotesque spectacle of a Protestant ministry that continues to maintain the primacy of Scripture for Christian thought and life-and is unable to read the same Scripture except through the pale mirror of translations...
Kennedy, in his reply, promised to uphold the dollar "with positive solutions." He ruled out devaluing the dollar or imposing exchange controls as measures to stem the payments deficit. He pointed out that the Administration has already cut the dollars spent abroad on defense to $1.7 billion a year, that U.S. Allies are being pressed to increase defense costs, and that the Administration is stepping up its program for increasing exports and attracting foreign visitors and capital...
Like any other world politician who is fresh out of ideas, Nikita then turned to the U.N. To counter the market's "aggressive policy," he called for an international, U.N.-sponsored trade organization in which "economically underdeveloped countries can uphold their interests and resist the international union of capitalist monopolies...
...Crown. Even the crack Guards regiments are no more highly rated than the brown, merry-faced Gurkhas, who seldom measure more than a few inches above the minimum 5 ft. required by the British army. They are renowned for their gentleness off the battlefield, but on it unflinchingly uphold their slogan: Kafar Hone Bhanda Morne Ramro, meaning, Better to die than live a coward. They believe that war is heaven-or at least the best way of getting there...