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...least generate legitimate interest in the beginning, interest that will hopefully translate into commitment in the future. The referendum in March demonstrated there was no strong sentiment in any direction toward the new plan. Think about it: 42 percent of the campus refused to spare 30 seconds to cast ballot in a vote which spanned three days, six meals and countless trips back and forth across the dining hall. And equally worrisome: a government structure which will attempt to represent the concerns of thousands of Harvard students in the coming years was designed, shaped and finalized by perhaps twenty...
Local governments have four different options in asking voters for more money than otherwise allowed by Prop 2 1/2. Some municipalities placed on the ballot money requests for specific outlays, such as land purchase and building maintenance, some have asked voters to modify the terms of bonded indebtedness and others, like Cambridge have asked for a partial or total over ride of the tax cuts mandated by Proposition...
Last week Roy Jenkins reaped his reward. In a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire battle in the well-heeled but wary Glasgow constituency of Hillhead, he emerged with 33.4% of the ballot, 2,038 votes ahead of the second-place Conservative candidate. Jenkins quickly acknowledged the support of the small Liberal Party and its leader, David Steel, who cemented an alliance with the S.D.P. last September. The win, exulted Jenkins, was a "triumph of the new deal of sense, moderation and hope we have offered...
...brainchild of Liberal Activist Harold Willens, board chairman of the Los Angeles-based Factory Equipment Corp., the initiative has been endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown. Backers have gathered more than 600,000 signatures, nearly twice as many as are necessary to have the initiative placed on the November ballot. "We feel that we're on the cutting edge of a new phenomenon," says Willens. "It's going to be very hard for the opposition to sweep us into the corner as a fringe group." Indeed, early estimates are that the referendum measure could pass with 65% of the vote...
Duarte, 56, whose sad, craggy face shows the wear and tear of more than two decades of political struggle, described the challenge confronting his party and country in the approaching election. "A few short days before you all flock massively to the ballot boxes in order to decide the destiny of the country," he said, "there are still voices heard that ask if our country has a way out of the crisis that afflicts it. In this transcendental moment of my life, I respond...