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...advocate the full return of ROTC to Harvard. As an undergraduate in 1969, I was twice suspended from Harvard for occupying buildings with the demand to abolish ROTC. Why is my position changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANGED MINDS | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

...crowd last night was smaller and quieter than the one that gathered in the council's chambers at City Hall Monday night. At that meeting, the council rejected a motion to abolish controls entirely made by Councillor Thomas W. Danehy. Danehy, as well as Councillors Daniel J. Clinton and Saundra Graham, did not attend last night...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Councillors Meet With Citizens To Discuss Rent Control Law | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

...Picasso. According to Kunzle, more than anything else, images of reconciliation, birth, and growth filled the murals, and images of children, because Popular Unity always stressed the past suffering and limitless future potentiality of children, born perhaps in rotting shantytowns but growing maturity with a government determined to abolish shantytowns for the future. The brigades painted murals on walls, on public buildings, outside municipal swimming pools, in a happy and sometimes even erotic style that owed something not just to Leger and Picasso and the professional artist who occasionally joined in because he supported Popular Unity, but also...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Speaking to the People | 2/12/1974 | See Source »

...Abolish Taxes. Somewhat lightheartedly, Glistrup has suggested that his country could live without its Foreign and Defense ministries. "Denmark cannot defend itself," he says. "Instead of an army, we should substitute an automatic telephone-answering service that, in case of invasion, replies in Russian: 'We surrender.' " He wants to abolish all income taxes for those who make $10,000 or less. "Only fools pay income tax," Glistrup once said. "There is no bigger crime against society than paying income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Anti-Welfare Revolution | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...Faculty should abolish the CRR. House committees should not nominate people to run for the CRR. No student should take part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No CRR | 12/13/1973 | See Source »

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