Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome of the referendum was never in doubt. "The only place they will give us to hold our rallies is a riverbed or a mountainside," complained New Democratic Assemblyman Yil-Hyung Chyung. "They have all the best places. People are even afraid to rent us loudspeaker equipment." Other opposition leaders charged that the Park forces were handing out money, shoes, food and other presents. The students remained docile not only because of the unspoken threat that their relatives might lose their jobs, but also because they found little support among the people...
...Hulan Jack, state assemblyman and former Manhattan borough president...
...surprising number of straight students are turning on too. The children of U.S. Senators George McGovern and Alan Cranston have been arrested on marijuana charges, as have the sons of California Assemblyman Jesse Unruh and Actor Darren McGavin. One of Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughters was suspended from Washington's exclusive National Cathedral School for three days last spring after an investigation was held to determine if she had been smoking pot. University of Indiana Sociologist Alfred R. Lindesmith, who has spent nearly 35 years studying drug use, contends with a measure of grim humor: "If a kid goes...
...Chilsen, 45, a former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather imprudently billed his campaign as "a referendum on the Nixon Administration." That was hardly the case, but his coattail reference may well haunt the G.O.P. While Chilsen conducted a languid campaign, Democratic State Assemblyman David Obey (pronounced Oh-bee) ran at full throttle all the way and edged his opponent, 63,592 votes...
...officials were increasingly coming around to the view that Tet, in the long run, had proved to be a disaster to the Communists, costing them 42,000 men, by U.S. estimate, rallying many South Vietnamese to fresh efforts, and resulting in "no enemy flags in our cities," as Constituent Assemblyman Dr. Phan Quang Dan said last week during a U.S. tour. Similarly, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson maintained that the U.S. "suffered a smashing, catastrophic psychological defeat" as a result of Tet?but only because it was "a defeat which we imposed on ourselves...