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...complaints, the Los Angeles police planted three agents in classrooms at California State University in Northridge to spy on students. A woman operative joined the Committee on Nuclear Information, an antinuke group, eventually becoming its president. The police also gathered intelligence on members of the police commission, a state assemblyman, a superior-court judge and even the mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley...
...Liberal, Aquino was thinking of running against Marcos in 1987, and had been working with opposition leaders against the President's heavyhanded rule. One of those leaders, Assemblyman Salvador Laurel, was at the airport along with thousands of Aquino followers when the assassination occurred. As word of the shooting rippled through the anguished crowd, Laurel glumly urged, "Be cool, be cool...
...VANN. Standing beside a framed picture of Malcolm X, Vann scans the blighted streets below his office window in a poor section of Brooklyn. "Rhetoric means nothing here," says the New York State assemblyman. "We are establishing a track record so that politicians everywhere understand that this city's black vote has national implications...
...Jersey is the latest state to return to 21. Governor Thomas Kean will sign the bill this week that was passed by the legislature over the bitter complaints of college students and tavern owners. Insisted New Jersey Assemblyman Martin Herman: "At this holiday time, there is no more important gift we can give than the gift of life." In Massachusetts, the American Automobile Association filed legislation to nudge the drinking age from 20 to 21. "Too often kids learn to drink and drive at the same time," said AAA Spokeswoman Kathleen Maurer. A Governor's task force in Texas...
Ready? A California state assemblyman (Dudley Moore) is running for Congress. On his way to a fund raiser, he becomes lost and is given directions by a waif on the road, one of those annoyingly precocious children beloved by bad scriptwriters. He invites the girl (Katherine Healy) to the party, and it turns out that she is not a waif at all but the daughter of America's cosmetics queen (Mary Tyler Moore). The mother makes him an offer. If he gives her twelve-year-old, who has developed a crush on him, a meaningful role in his campaign...