Word: abolitionism
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CAPETOWN, S. Africa--A special government commission yesterday recommended the abolition of discriminatory labor laws to allow blacks the same pay, training and union membership as whites.
THE YEAR of Intelligence, 1975-when the Church Committee of the Senate and Pike Committee of the House investigated the intelligence services--led to a spate of revelations about the CIA's activities. The agency had conducted drug experiments on innocent individuals, opened mail at home and been involved in...
Other possibilities for reform include the abolition of the current 2.5 to one male-female "ceiling ration," publication of lottery numbers, and the elimination of biographical material from housing applications.
The occupation had begun in the early afternoon of April 9. About 300 demonstrators had taken the building to publicize a list of six demands approved at an SDS-sponsored meeting: abolition of Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and contracts; replacement of all ROTC scholarships with University...
Five hours after the police raid, 2000 students gathered in Memorial Church and voted overwhelmingly to authorize a three-day strike of classes. The SDS backed the strike, but support for the move went far beyond a "radical" faction that wanted to make abolition of ROTC the key issue, and...