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...Lindsay's decision was based on the practical realization that there was no way he could win re-election. The only people who were willing to support the Mayor was the Liberal Party, which had backed him four years ago. However, the only way Lindsay could win on their slate would be to build strong popular support, something he seems incapable of doing now. A poll commissioned by City Comptroller Abraham Beame shows Lindsay with only 12 per cent of the vote, in a hypothetical race with Beame and Republican State Senator John Marchi...
...constitution in Pakistan. But first there must be machinery for the return of our P.O.W.s. There must be no war crimes trials, no persecution of accused collaborators, and the principles for settlement of our financial problems must be worked out. Let's really begin with a clean slate...
LAST WEEK RON SILVA, the Bureau's program administrator, showed me a list of twenty-odd programs that were "on the slate," but when I spoke to Saravelas he could name only four programs currently in operation (excluding the Bureau's two $50,000 satellite projects and an educational census conducted in conjunction with the schools and a number of other city agencies). They were a Junior Advocate program (which trains youth to do counseling work), a psychology program, an alcoholism program in conjunction with the hospital, and the cosmetics program...
Alcala said that his organization has been working closely with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) which has been trying to organize the Farah workers. He said MECDA is considering running a pro-union slate in the next Coop elections...
...English system, in being transplanted, has necessarily been changed in many ways, with the especial purpose of adapting it to the American point of view. It would seem wise to start with as clear a slate as possible with no definite commitments to certain methods merely because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seems to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this house off with a strong anglophile bias...