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Cautiously waiting for ten years, the city finally opened bidding for its cable license in February after Cambridge voters supported referendum Question No. 2 and permitted officials to initiate the bidding process. Last July Cambridge issued state-mandated specifications to guide interested cable companies. Each franchise, must now submit its...
The nation's latest bout of violence, the worst in seven years, broke out during last month's elections to choose members of the new Parliament. Some 625,000 pupils staged school boycotts, scores were arrested, and newly enfranchised voters showed little interest in the whole proceeding: only...
There is wide difference of opinion in South Africa over whether the electoral changes represent a strengthening of apartheid or are the first steps in a long retreat. Says Helen Suzman, an opposition M.P. and one of the government's most articulate opponents: "The new constitution is based on...
From the podium this week in the Dallas Convention Center, the President's tone will surely be more generous and magisterial. That is all according to plan. During the campaign, explains a political adviser, "you'll see aggressive speeches alternating in phases with 'statesmanlike' material." In his statesman mode, the...
Such complaints were not unprecedented, but Stanton added a demand that was radical indeed. Over the protests of Mott and several other delegates, she introduced a resolution (which just narrowly passed) declaring that it was women's duty "to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise...