Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vindicating Violence. In Newark, the riot brought a spate of programs in its wake. The N.A.A.C.P. is launching a massive voter-registration drive, which could give the city, with a majority Negro population, a Negro mayor within a few years. (Some delegates to the black power conference did not want to wait that long, announced that they would seek a special election to recall Addonizio and elect a Negro.) The business community formed a committee to seek financial help for merchants whose shops were destroyed. Some 60 whites and Negroes established a Committee of Concern to examine problems of housing...
...Rivers Street, Cambridge, where they counsel young men in methods of avoiding the draft. They are also thinking of working more closely with the CNC, whose canvassers generally keep records of which Cambridge families have draftage sons. The Draft Resistance Group may send people around in the wake of the CNC to offer their services to these families...
Peace Somehow. In the wake of the war, some Israeli leaders-most notably ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion-have proposed that the west bank of the Jordan be turned into a semiautonomous Palestinian Arab state where all refugees could be settled. But without Arab cooperation, Israel could hardly expect to set up an Arab Palestine as a satellite state...
While the Arabs tried to talk their way out of military disaster, the Israelis faced up to problems that mounted in the wake of their swiftest military triumph since Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho. Theirs was the pride of triumph, but theirs, too, were the enormous obligations involved in any conquest of people and property...
...reading of 800° Fahrenheit, the newest Mariner may come close enough to detect a Venusian magnetic field-if it exists-and the equivalent of the earth's Van Allen radiation belts. It is also equipped to measure the density and temperature of the Venusian atmosphere, investigate the wake left by Venus as it plows through the solar wind, and provide new data on the mass and precise location of the planet...