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While this astounding proposal was being debated, an interim increase of 25% was put into effect last May and was left in force after the Administration's August wage-price freeze. Now it appears that the Postal Service will be exempted from Phase II guidelines. In a press conference, Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, announced that the service need only "certify" the need for increased rates and that no controls should "prevent the full recovery of costs...
...this light, the case of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg '52 is particularly unusual he is something of an archetype par excellence for the sort of interim activist leader we have described. His admitted role in helping to circulate The Pentagon Papers strikes a few themes central to the current American crisis...
...interim what generally happened was that the specific instructions which we had given to the local groups were ignored. At each organizational meeting, I stressed the importance of getting lists of all registered black voters. In half the places I later toured in October this was never done. At each meeting, I also urged that an intensive precinct canvass be undertaken. No house-to-house canvass was done in three-quarters of the state...
...government serves the ruling class. NAM has replaced nonsensical talk about seizing state power with a band of Yippies by seriously considering the best programs and organizing techniques with which to reach working people and make them consider socialism as a real alternative. NAM sees itself as performing an interim function for the seventies: co-founder Lerner summarizes its modest goal as putting "socialism on the national agenda...
...original proposal--initiated by the West Coast founders--was for a fairly centralized National Interim Committee (NIC) that would aid in organizing new chapters and publicize NAM by publishing a national newspaper. In addition, the founders proposed that the conference select three program priorities which all chapters would work on in addition to local projects...