Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...federal elections. But the Administration has seized the initiative with Attorney General William Rogers' plan for court-appointed referees to safeguard Negro voting rights in all elections, state and local as well as federal (TIME, Feb. 8). Whether the Democratic majorities in Congress accept the Rogers plan or reject it, it may win some Negro votes for the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower got an estimated 21% of the Negro vote in 1952, some 39% in 1956; unless the economy sags in the meantime, Nixon might do even better...
...right to issue decrees with the force of law in the fields of: 1 "maintenance of law and order"; 2) "the security of the state"; 3) "the pacification and administration of Algeria." Only after the emergency powers expire next February will Parliament get a chance to ratify or reject De Gaulle's decrees...
FREE ECONOMY: "Republicans flatly reject the argument that the nation can pump its way to permanent prosperity by an outpouring of federal dollars...
...Mboya's elbow during the talks will be Thurgood Marshall, general counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., who flew to Kenya from the U.S. to advise on tactics. Kenya's white settler extremists firmly reject the idea of an African government and insist that Britain remain in control indefinitely. Last week Governor Sir Patrick Renison signed a red-ribboned document formally ending the seven-year Mau Mau state of emergency. In Nairobi's African locations, thousands of natives celebrated on a native beer called pombe, and burned the hated identification passbooks they have had to carry...
...announced bluntly: "They must go, and they must go soon." But who would take the Vietnamese refugees? Laos did not want them. Neither did South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, who feared loss of face if the refugees-mostly northerners, and Communist-indoctrinated-should reject an invitation from him. At this point, North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh offered to take in the refugees. And after the usual hard bargaining, an agreement was reached between the Communists and Thailand's Anti-Communist government...