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...member Gray Panthers and the American Association of Retired Persons have denounced the plan, and local groups are mobilizing to stage rallies and letter-writing campaigns. Said Frank Manning, director of the Massachusetts Legislative Council for Older Americans: "We feel that now that they have started to amend Social Security they won't stop. We have an uneasy feeling they have tasted blood...
...bill, which was proposed by city councilor David Sullivan, would amend the city's controversial limits on condo conversion by requiring tenants who wish to buy their apartments to obtain a hard-to-get permit from the city. Tenants who have been living in their apartments since before August 1979--when the original ordinance was adopted--are currently allowed to purchase their homes...
...Thurmond is now quite accommodating to the blacks who make up one-third of his constituency. He has hired blacks for his staff and helped appoint a black federal judge in his state. But he is not exactly a convert to the civil rights movement, and he wants to amend the Voting Rights Act to provide a way that states can avoid federal clearance of new election laws. If that cannot be done, then Thurmond and other Southern legislators want a renewed act applied to all 50 states. Civil rights leaders say this would create an unwarranted bureaucracy and dilute...
...University. The proposal--drawn up by the Committee on Research Policy (CRP)--first came before the council last winter and was debated three times before Dean Rosovsky recommended tabling the issue. The CRP proposal, part of the Faculty's attempt to develop guidelines governing professors' outside work, would amend a 15-year-old University policy on conflicts of interest by distinguishing between conventional conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment, in which a professors' outside activities could detract from his time spent at the University...
Herrmann said that he proposed sending the letter because of a "widespread misconception" among faculty and students that CHUL may amend the Dowling plan after students vote...