Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...debate. Pressure came from the White House for a vote against the bill, and from the N.A.A.C.P. and the A.F.L.-C.l.O. for it. During the debate, the G.O.P.'s respected William Mc-Culloch of Ohio warned the House that a "no" vote would mean that "the most effective civil rights law in our nation's history will be emasculated.'' Celler was now as strongly in favor of the package as he had been opposed to the 18-year-old vote provision standing alone. Said one cynical observer: "Some of the boys threw a net over Manny...
...North and South. He can be tenacious as well as persuasive. When the Administration's "Philadelphia Plan" for integrating workers on federal construction jobs was rejected by U.S. Comptroller General Elmer Staats because it established, in effect, racial quotas for hiring, which are illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Shultz got a contrary ruling from Attorney General John Mitchell, and that ruling has since been upheld by a U.S. District Court judge...
...week's end, convoys bearing the symbol of the International Red Cross escorted foreigners to the Amman airport to be flown to Beirut and Athens aboard airliners sent by the U.S. and West German governments. Relief workers added up the casualties in three days of civil war. The Red Crescent (the Arab Red Cross) estimated 200 dead and 500 wounded. "There was so much shooting," said one medical worker, "that we couldn't even bury the dead." About 50 wounded were treated in hospitals in Damascus, where they were taken by ambulance when Jordanian hospitals became overcrowded...
Speaking to constituents in his Midlands district of Wolverhampton, Powell last week charged that the sacrosanct Civil Service had "cruelly and persistently misled" the public as to the size of the immigrant problem. In a tactic reminiscent of the late Senator McCarthy, Powell said, "One begins to wonder if the Foreign Office is the only department of state into which enemies of this country have infiltrated...
False Arrest. A Munich civil rights lawyer is now filing suit to bar XY. He charges that the show 1) creates the impression that the accused are guilty before they can receive a trial and 2) rouses a "chase fever because of the rewards. Zimmermann has made all Germans bounty hunters...