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...quest for ideological simplicity The Crimson has grouped four separate issues together into the editorial "Abolish the CIA" (January 14). One must distinguish between foreign CIA activities aimed at gathering information and those aimed at toppling legitimate governments. Domestically, one must distinguish CIA spying from surveillance carried...
...call to abolish the CIA is the kind of superficial hyperbolic bleating that unfortunately makes so much of Crimson editorial policy both outrageous and laughable. By Crimson logic we should abolish the Presidency because Nixon committed crimes against civil liberties...
...eight years, the soldiers' union has increased pay for draftees nearly ninefold (from $21 a month to $180.55), reduced service time from 24 months to 16 months and made officers more respectful of the men under them. Along the way, the union forced the Defense Ministry to abolish saluting (except on ceremonial occasions), did away with regulations regarding length of hair and beards and ended all weekend duty in barracks...
...States or by any State on account of sex." Within nine months, 22 states had ratified the amendment and the necessary 16 more were expected to do so long before the 1979 deadline. Then in early 1973 various groups mounted a powerful opposition drive protesting that the amendment would abolish many legal safeguards for women, like protective labor legislation, and would require women to be drafted and go into combat. Only eight more states approved the ERA in 1973 and three in 1974. Meanwhile, Nebraska and Tennessee voted to rescind their ratification. (Whether or not to accept these reversals...
...smell defeat," said pro-monarchist George Geogeoppulos, a retired army officer, after seeing the first returns. Defeat it was. By an unequivocal margin of 69.2%, Greece voted to abolish the monarchy that has ruled the country since 1833. At his home near London, exiled King Constantine, 34, disconsolately watched the televised election results mount against him. Meanwhile, thousands of his jubilant countrymen converged on Athens' Constitution Square to celebrate the birth of their nation as an "uncrowned democracy." Constantine now joins the small but select group of unemployed European monarchs (see box). In a brief statement of concession...