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...school-desegregation suit in one Mississippi county and another suit challenging the residency requirements of the state's welfare laws, the mossbacks reacted with a vengeance. The legislature leaned on the state board of higher education, which pressured the university's chancellor, who in turn forced a crackdown by Law Dean Morse. Though he protested, Morse relayed the order that all faculty members must choose between the school...
However unhappy the NASD edict may make some investors, there are good reasons for it. Unlisted stocks account for at least 60% of the maddening delays in delivering stock certificates. Moreover, the Securities and Exchange Commission virtually dictated some sort of crackdown. Two weeks ago, as part of a stern warning that dealers may be violating the antifraud provisions of federal securities law if they knowingly trade shares they cannot deliver promptly, the SEC suggested that a possession-before-sale policy would be "appropriate...
Loudest Protest. Now 168 journalists -nearly a third of Madrid's press corps -have sounded the loudest protest yet against the regime's renewed press crackdown. They wrote an angry letter to Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, which has not been published but which was widely quoted in Madrid last week...
...service officer have been assigned to each ghetto station as emissaries to the neighborhood. Each station, in addition, has established a citizens' council that brings together 20 to 50 residents a month to discuss local problems with the police. One such meeting in Watts elicited a demand for a crackdown on bars serving as hangouts for prostitutes. The police listened, then acted against the bars. Another time a group from the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts brought in a suggestion for a community police service corps; they already had some 60 boys and girls, ages...
...Papandreou's case, the precaution did no good. Anticipating a crackdown, "the Old Fox"-as he is widely known in Greece-slipped out before his arrest a recording of a ringing anti-junta speech to Britain, where the BBC's Greek-language broadcast beamed his defiant words into sets all over Greece...