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August 9--Mayor Ackermann announces a month-long moratorium announces a month-long moratorium on the City Manager debate, saying in a prepared statement that she will call no more special meetings of the Council until the five CCA councillors agree on a candidate...
Since 1967, there has been a moratorium on executions while various cases (including Jackson's) worked their way up through the appeals courts. The Supreme Court, partly transformed by President Nixon's appointment of four Justices, was expected to uphold the death penalty, but on the last day of its term, the court produced its surprise...
...NATIONAL moratorium came and went almost unnoticed, and only a handful of Harvard's diehards turned out for a May 8 civil disobedience action at the John F. Kennedy Federal building in Boston at which 200 persons were arrested. But that night, President Nixon escalated the war against the North another notch, and antiwar sentiments were rekindled anew. His television announcement that he would mine the North Vietnamese ports prompted renewed plans for action, as Harvard students again prepared to disrupt their routines to stop what appeared briefly to be a mad march to the nuclear brink...
...restrictions fall short of Nix on's request for a flat moratorium on all busing until July 1, 1973 and a lasting ban against busing below the seventh grade. Yet he is expected to sign the bill...
...NATIONAL moratorium came and went almost unnoticed, and only a handful of Harvard's diehards turned out for a May 8 civil disobedience action at the John F. Kennedy Federal building in Boston at which 200 persons were arrested. But that night, President Nixon escalated the war against the North another notch, and antiwar sentiments were rekindled anew. His television announcement that he would mine the North Vietnamese ports prompted renewed plans for action, as Harvard students again prepared to disrupt their routines to stop what appeared briefly to be a mad march to the nuclear brink...