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...When something fouls up in science, the government will ask the academy to study the problem, but basically the academy is a self-perpetuating body whose main function is to elect new members," Griffiths, who was elected for his research relating higher calculus to classical geometry, said yesterday...
...crusade in 1977 led to the repeal of gay rights ordinances in Dade County, Fla., Wichita, Kans., St. Paul and Eugene, Ore. But Bryant's efforts also prodded gays by the tens of thousands to join homosexual rights organizations. In Washington, B.C., last fall, the gays organized to help elect Marion Barry as mayor. A staunch gay rights advocate, Barry has expressed gratitude for their support. Says Tom Bostow, president of Washington's Gertrude Stein Democratic Club: "The single person who elected Barry was Anita Bryant." The gays also mobilized enough strength at the polls in California last November...
...proposition is preposterous. Once again the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gather to elect a successor to the late Pope, killed in a plane crash. The conclave is deadlocked. An Italian prelate offers a radical proposal: elect a monk. Said monk is not your average Trappist. He is a former U.S. Marine colonel who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading his troops out of a deathtrap during the Korean War; a Pulitzer prizewinner for the book he wrote about the experience; a former presidential emissary to the Vatican; and, until his retirement to the monastery, Chief Justice...
Italy's President Alessandro Pertini had dissolved parliament while the congress was in session, thereby turning it into a rousing pre-campaign rally. In late spring, Italians will go to the polls to elect a new parliament from which will come the country's 42nd government since the overthrow of Mussolini 36 years ago. In effect, Berlinguer has declared that the elections-which take place two years ahead of schedule-will be a referendum on whether or not the Communists should be included in a coalition of "democratic unity...
...Autonomy is a very serious issue. We want to carry out our pledge to give them full autonomy. They should elect their own administrative council, which will conduct their daily affairs and in which we shall not interfere. [But] we must have our security...