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...them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement. Still, he was not an advocate of Gandhi's principles of nonviolence and organized a guerrilla force to disrupt rails and communications and foment strikes and riots...
...keep up to $20,000 equity in a house, $500 in a car, most household goods, tools of trade, $1,000 in a savings and loan association account and $1,500 in a credit union account. Moreover, under a ruling won by Slate a decade ago, Californians may convert any funds or assets into exempt categories before filing a bankruptcy petition...
...atom are "the major candidates for meeting energy needs of the future." If the approach ERDA espouses is successful, the agency forecasts that by the year 2000 the U.S. will have 450 nuclear generating plants (current total: 55) and anywhere from 200 to 400 plants that convert solar power to electricity. As the oil-scarce 21st century arrives, ERDA says, the U.S. will be on the way to a virtually all-electric country, with 10-15 million solar-heated homes and 15 million electric cars weaving among the remaining gas guzzlers on the highways...
...until three months later that the S.L.A. achieved its bizarre notoriety by kidnaping Patricia Hearst, who became a convert and fellow fugitive. Meanwhile, two S.L.A. members named Russell Little, a former philosophy student, and Joseph Remiro, a Viet Nam veteran, were arrested and eventually charged with the Foster murder...
...return for this partial surrender of home rule, the money spigot has been turned on again. Big Mac is empowered to convert up to $3 billion in short-term debt into long-term bonds. The new bonds will be backed by some $1 billion in revenues from the sales tax and stock-transfer tax. This arrangement is expected to reassure investors who were frightened away from city offerings...