Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Set the Climate. Highlights of the commission's report...
...unrest' . . . Although it may not be easy for the President to communicate with some students, we are strongly of the opinion that the effort to do so will be of great benefit . . . Government leaders from the President on down should also recognize that their words and actions . . . help set the climate for law enforcement." The commission also told the President that to end campus disturbances and violence, "nothing is more important than an end to the war in Indochina...
Young helped lead the marches and took his share of arrests and beatings. He was in charge of the demonstration the day in 1963 that Birmingham's Bull Connor set dogs on the marchers. But it was as a behind-the-scenes man, a bargainer, that he made his mark. He helped to construct the settlements of racial disputes in Birmingham and Selma and was a negotiator in the hospital strike in Charleston; he was the mediator in Resurrection City who tried to unite blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians...
...California. Her appearance at the hearing drew offers of help from all over and Mrs. Whitner organized eleven fellow conspirators. Though posing as needy persons, they have incomes of at least $400 to more than $1,000 a month. Under Mrs. Whitner's guidance, the Dirty Dozen set about systematically bilking Bay Area welfare offices...
...that accompanied him to Amman to arrange a truce finally got both sides to agree to a ceasefire. As the truce was going into effect, word reached Amman that Jordan's Premier Brigadier General Mohammed Daoud, who was named to that post only two weeks ago when Hussein set up an all-military Cabinet, had abruptly resigned. Daoud, in Cairo to attend the Arab summit, disappeared from his Nile Hilton hotel room, leaving a note for Hussein explaining that he was making way for a government of "national unity." His resignation, however, was due to personal as well...