Word: unpopularity
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...Ethel Rosenberg because their second request for habeas corpus raised a substantial question that the court had not previously considered. The attempted impeachment died in the House Judiciary Committee, and Douglas continued to join Justice Hugo Black in vigorous dissents urging the protection of the rights of the unpopular. In cases involving free speech and assembly, Douglas has argued that the First Amendment is intended to protect everyone, including "miserable merchants of unwanted ideas." Direct action, he conceded, is quite another matter...
...support of and complicity with the Greek regime has made the U. S. unpopular not only with the Greek people but also with the nations of Western Europe. The Council of Europe has proved through its Commission on Human Rights that torture in Greece does not occur in isolated instances, but is a policy of the Greek government. This revelation led to the expulsion of Greece from the Council of Europe, in spite of U. S. lobbying against expulsion. The Bonn government is threatening to break diplomatic ties with Greece, also to the displeasure of the U. S. Most importantly...
...more palatable to both Congress and the public, but the task will not be easy. The House, in particular, is jealous of its fiscal prerogatives and may well hesitate to turn control of the spending of U.S. aid funds over to an international agency. Foreign aid is deeply unpopular with Americans. In a Louis Harris poll taken for LIFE last year, 69% nominated foreign aid as the prime candidate for federal spending cuts. Still a condition that allows the gap between rich and poor nations to widen steadily is basically unhealthy-and dangerous to U.S. interests...
Machiavellian Device. First undertaken as long ago as 3800 B.C. by the Babylonians and in 3000 B.C. by the Chinese, head counts have often proved unpopular because of their association in the public mind with taxation and conscription. When a national census was proposed to the British Parliament some 200 years ago, an enraged M.P. described the project as "totally subversive to the last remains of English liberty." Only in 1801 was the idea reluctantly accepted. The notion that the census is a Machiavellian device designed to enhance the power of the government is still strong; Machiavelli did, in fact...
...problem, but maintaining it proved more difficult. Police duty is traditionally defined as crime prevention and law enforcement-functions that take only 10% to 20% of a policeman's time. Among his many other duties-directing traffic, recovering stray pets and children, maintaining order-none is more thoroughly unpopular than intervening in personal quarrels...