Word: anties
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Another candidate, Lockwood, has gone beyond advocating that the council hear divisive issues--he has vocally taken sides on them. Lockwood sponsored last year's failed resolution backing an anti-discrimination complaint against the council and co-authored a bill calling on the University not to wage a campaign against the would-be staff election. He says convincing the nine final clubs to admit women would be a top priority in a Lockwood administration...
LOUISE DAY HICKS--The controversial Hicks is one of the key characters in J. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Boston's busing crisis, Common Ground. Lukas describes Hicks, the school committee member who marshaled Boston's anti-busing forces, as a "huge marshmallow of a woman in her tentlike dresses...
...agrees with the controversial laws Congress knocked down, the legislative threat to withhold tax money actually raised by the citizens for the day-to-day administration of their own elected government negates the principle of local self-government. Unfortunately, such principles mean little to congressmen who believe that anti-abortion and anti-gay votes will bolster their reelection prospects...
...dramatic demonstration of that desire, Haiti's newest government last week abruptly pushed Paul, 49, into retirement. The move came one day after a prodemocracy march by fiercely nationalistic Haitians turned into an anti- American protest and a rally for Paul. At 10:30 p.m. last Friday, a televised bulletin announced that Paul had retired from the army with a pension of $960 a month. Paul negotiated the agreement with Lieut. General Prosper Avril, his 1961 classmate at Haiti's military academy, who is now President of the country. Lieut. Colonel Guy Francois, Paul's U.S.-trained second-in-command...
Does Dukakis want Bush's ten-year-old grandchild to see Deep Throat? Not likely. Nor does the A.C.L.U., which explains that it is not pro-pornography but is anti-censorship. Says executive director Ira Glasser: "Anyone who uses a child in pornography is violating the law and should be prosecuted, period." The group has not spent one cent to dismantle the movie ratings but has merely met with the judges to find ways to make it less categorical...