Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strengths later turned out to be exasperating quirks. The man who refused to grandstand from his temporary quarters at the Elysée also refused to get out and campaign. The man most responsible for rousing France to vote no on De Gaulle's referendum seemed unwilling to indict the Gaullist era with facts and figures. The man who gave the presidency its first informality in eleven years also showed up on television peering at notes and occasionally flubbing a line. "Poher is a good man," remarked Deauville Mayor Michel d'Ornano, "but he still thinks...
Promoted. Nevertheless, the state refused to investigate the incident, and Governor Robert McNair backed the police. Five of the nine defendants subsequently won promotions, and a federal grand jury refused to indict. Finally, the Justice Department brought misdemeanor charges against the nine. The state provided the cops' defense lawyers, including Assistant Attorney General Joseph C. Coleman...
...CENTRAL issue of this strike, as we see it, is the structure of the decision-making process at Harvard. We consider the present power-holders to be incompetent, illegitimate, and inimical to the interests of the Community and the University. therefore, we indict the President and Fellows of Harvard University. We challenge the right and the competence of the Harvard Corporation and its administration to continue making vital decisions without the full participation of Faculty, students and, where applicable, the greater community. Specifically, we challenge the Corporation and its administration to defend and explain the following representative actions and conditions...
...like the measles and polio viruses, may cause permanent damage. Others, like those of hepatitis and rabies, may spend months in incubation before they cause apparent illness. But these, it had been thought, were the exceptions. A researcher trying to indict a virus as the cause of a still unexplained disease has ordinarily injected his test materials into small lab animals and waited a few months. If none of the animals got the disease in that time, he killed them and wrote off the experiment as a failure...
...were even members of the National Renewal Alliance, the government party established after the first military takeover in March 1964 against Leftist Joao Goulart. The government last week indicated that it may disband the party. One embarrassing reason: 70 of its members were among the Congressmen who refused to indict Fellow Legislator Márcio Moreira Alves for slurs against the army. It was the "no" vote of a normally compliant Congress that ostensibly touched off the military's intervention...