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...Democratic-controlled legislature passed the bill, but not before attaching amendments that threaten to wreck the Republican Governor's plan. One amendment extends the compulsory 15% rate cut to all sectors of auto insurance, including collision, fire and theft, without any change in the coverage to justify the reduction. Another forces insurers, with few exceptions, to guarantee lifetime renewal of liability policies. Says Sargent's legislative assistant, Christopher Armstrong: "I can be convicted of manslaughter, be caught speeding ten times in one year, get in seven serious accidents resulting in claims of $125,000, and the company still...
...Mayor Joseph Alioto's office and offered the Corps and its former survival training school near Lake Tahoe as a fresh-air refuge from the streets. San Francisco policemen recruited the 13-to 15-year-old campers, including some they had previously arrested for purse snatching and car theft. Businessmen put up the money for food, the Marines assigned mess sergeants, and reservists volunteered to act as counselors...
...Summerthing concerts have been marred by incidents of fighting and petty theft during and after the performances. Several fights broke out during the Ray Charles concert June 24, and aftenward in the Square a small group of youths snatched pocketbooks and wallets until the arrival of two Cambridge Police cars...
...legislative coup that left the Democrats dumbfounded. Aware that Senators J. William Fulbright and Charles Mathias were planning to propose the repeal of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, he stole the issue out from under the doves by offering it himself. Fulbright was outraged by the theft and voted against the repeal because the manner in which it was offered was "meaningless." To Dole's satisfaction and amusement, the repeal passed easily, 81 to 10. "Everyone's thieving in the Senate," Dole said. "You've got to hang on to the ball, or someone else will...
Looting with Scruples. Writes Jerry Rubin: "All money represents theft. To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. To take what you need is an act of self-love, self-liberation. While looting, a man to his own self is true." To many radicals, that truth is self-evident indeed. Some of those who take jobs in department stores or markets steal what they can, and either resell it at a minimum price underground or donate it to communes. Some who work in restaurants or drugstores let their friends in to eat or rip what they need...