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Ruth Messinger '62, the self-described "oldest living member of the peace movement," is a member of the New York City Council from the west side district that sent Bella Abzug to Congress. Joining the committee for a Safe Nuclear Policy while still in high school in the 1950s, she worked for the Fred Harris campaigns in Oklahoma in 1963 and 1965, against the Viet Nam war, for low income housing in New York City, for community controlled daycare in the 1970s. And she held a full-time job and raised a family at the same time. When her children...
...trounced, 2 to 1, by Donald Fraser, a liberal Democrat who represented a Minneapolis district in Congress for 16 years. Fraser urged depoliticizing the police-department and ostentatiously discouraged campaign contributions from individual police officers...
Guevara, a political moderate who once served as Bolivia's Ambassador to the United Nations, seemed doomed from the moment he was sworn in three months ago. Various plotters began planning at least three separate coups after Bolivia's Congress chose Guevara to serve as interim President until an election next May. Natusch, 46, the commander of the military training school, struck first. Backed by junior officers, he dispatched a force to surround the palace, dissolved Congress and declared himself President...
...military regime 40 years ago, lifted martial law and press censorship, then went on TV to pledge a vaguely defined "revolutionary" government of "national leftism." He also agreed to a plan under which he would become the dominant member of a ruling triumvirate that would also include representatives of Congress...
...Government stands ready to help because shale oil is an important part of Jimmy Carter's energy program. The Administration is more optimistic than oilmen: it envisages the production of 400,000 bbl. a day by 1990. Carter wants Congress to grant shale developers a tax credit of $3 a bbl. to make shale oil prices competitive with those of conventional petroleum. In addition to the Senate's $20 billion program, the Administration is providing $2.2 billion in fiscal 1980, largely for shale...