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Hyland was active in the 1968-69 SDS campaign against ROTC as a member of the "New Left Caucus." After about 200 students occupied University Hall on April 9, 1969, in support of demands which included the abolition of ROTC, Hyland was elected chairman of the ad hoc meeting of...
This hard and aggressive line only hastened a split of the Group of Ten into two camps: the U.S. and what some Americans now call "the Nine." Before facing Connally in London, the European Common Market nations met in Brussels to agree on their position. Giscard and German Economics Minister...
Capstone Proposal. The Administration's strategy for recovery encompasses a range of measures, among them some tax breaks for individuals and sales-stimulating efforts like abolition of the 7% auto excise tax. Paul McCracken, Nixon's chief economist, reckons that the program will generate 500,000 new jobs...
But just what is the "absolutely necessary" and rather total transformation Revel calls for? Little short of Utopia. All Revel seems to expect is an end to "the notion of national sovereignty," some sort of "worldwide economic and educational equality," the "abolition of war," an "elimination of the possibility of...
There are few things the British like better than a thundering good argument about crime and punishment. Some of the great public and parliamentary debates in postwar Britain have been concerned with the end of flogging (1948), the abolition of hanging (1965), the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and the...