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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likelihood that his rating in the public-opinion polls will rise considerably as a result of the renunciation. Together, these factors will give him considerable leverage, which he has not had in recent months. And Lyndon Johnson, who above all else craves a favorable verdict from history, will undoubtedly use those levers in a final, all-out effort to solve the two problems that have increasingly bedeviled his presidency?the war in Viet Nam, the racial confrontation at home...
...rights of both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to give religious instruction in schools, enjoy state protection of religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force them to break away entirely from their West German brethren, thus severing the last major formal link between the two Germanys...
Boardman, who first joined the Press in 1939, also tends to leave investigative reporting to the Plain Dealer. "You don't spend the resources of money, talent and readers' time going after every small wrongdoing," he says. "You don't use a fire hose to put out a match." Like Vail, however, he has put together a more youthful staff, hiring 19 reporters in their 20s. The Press still performs its customary services for Cleveland's powerful ethnic groups. A reporter annually tours Eastern Europe, relaying news of relatives back home. At the same time...
...more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...groups have about themselves and each other. Distrust is mutual -and obvious-at the start. "The Negro is lazy and uncooperative." "He has no self-respect." "He's immoral, has no regard for life or property," say the police. "Police are cold, mechanical, rude," say the citizens. "They use foul language and call Negroes nigger, or boy, or uncle, or woman." "They treat suspects differently depending on their race and economic status, and they are prone to violence...