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...university without walls program in Boston, part of UMass-Amherst. He teaches a course on the American socialist movement there, but plans to resign in January to become more of a full-time law student. He is also the chairman of the New England branch of the Committee to Repeal Repressive Legislation...
...last February by the state supreme court. Although Mary Ann Turner, 23, held Kelly Girl temporary jobs during the final months before her son Brian was born, the Utah court ignored such earthly evidence and instead invoked "the Great Creator." Redress, the court declared, could come only in "the repeal of the biological law of nature." The Supreme Court decision may well doom 14 other state laws that almost duplicate Utah's. Especially pleased is Mrs. Turner's American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, Kathleen W. Peratis. She herself is six months pregnant...
...aperture's chief demands are a general political amnesty, repeal of anti-terrorist laws legalizing extreme repression, an opening of the political system to all parties except the Communists, and the replacement of the current government with "new men." The "moderates" hope to install politicians like the former Francoist ministers of information Manuel Fraga Iribarne and Pio Cabanillas, who are too liberal for the bunker but are "gut fascists" nevertheless. The "moderates" want to integrate Spain into western Europe, stripping the nation of the political forms which provoke internal rebellion and keep Spain out of the Common Market...
Crout explains that after enactment of the tough Sullivan law in New York in 1911, murders increased by 18 per cent the following year and burglaries increased so fast that insurance companies petitioned the legislature to repeal the law. Today, he says, New York City prohibits handguns almost entirely and has the second highest murder rate of cities over a million, along with 21 per cent of all robberies committed in the United States...
...been lately in order to achieve even that modest goal. Such a policy will not mollify Burns' numerous and vehement critics, who judge a faster increase necessary to meet the needs of a growing economy. Recently, for instance, some Congressmen accused Burns of trying in effect to repeal the tax cuts legislated by Congress this year, by increasing the money supply so slowly as to cancel out their expansionary impact. If the Federal Reserve at least puts out enough money to keep interest rates stable, it will ease one of the worst fears dogging the recovery...