Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...trespass on the separation of powers doctrine in spirit if not in law. He denounced at some length the ruling of a Los Angeles trial judge in a lawsuit that is still in progress. Nixon described as "probably the most extreme judicial decree so far" a Superior Court command that the city school district establish nearly precise racial balance throughout its 561-school system. (Coleman calls Los Angeles "a smug Northern district that hasn't done a thing about the segregation there.") Superior Court Presiding Judge Joseph Wapner, who did not take part in the Los Angeles ruling, found...
...pensive man in private, Jackson expounds his opinions forcefully in public. He does not arouse a crowd as readily as King did, but he employs cadence, sweeping hand gestures, a penetrating gaze and abrupt changes in volume to command attention. He deliberately mangles grammar and throws in mild profanity to develop rapport with audiences. He is hopelessly addicted to preacherly metaphors, some effectively illuminating, others either mystifying or inept. "We need leadership," he likes to say, "not leaders. The ship is what's important because
...question of cooperating with the Communists in local governments. The moderates, who wanted to stay clear of the Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with, if only because of their strength at the polls (they regularly command one-quarter of the national vote), became simply the Socialist Party. This split in the coalition forced Rumor to dissolve his entire government...
Souvanna is mediating a family quarrel as well as a corner of the East-West war. The Pathet Lao have long been under the command of his half brother Prince Souphanouvong, 57. While Souphanouvong was labeled the Red Prince, Souvanna was sometimes called the Pink Prince, presumably because of his willingness to cooperate with the Pathet...
...Bethel Church and preach freedom to the workers in the cotton fields. The problem is how to believe this in 1970. The wheedling, tricking, self-inflating Purlie embodies a slavery-induced personality that no longer applies to a race increasingly infused with the will and strength to command its own destiny...