Word: berkeley
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...done." Jack Aranson has done it, superbly. Aranson was born in Los Angeles, trained as an actor at the Old Vic, toured Ireland, and in 1963 formed his own San Francisco City Theater. He is currently doing Moby Dick at college theaters in the Bay Area. Berkeley students are as still as un-dropped pins on the nights he appears...
...lately shifted his fire to a new target of opportunity, the welfare mess. The upshot was startling and wholly unexpected: by a comfortable margin, the regents chose a decided liberal to succeed retiring Roger W. Heyns as the new chancellor of California's most controversial campus, Berkeley...
...years the more moderate citizens of Berkeley, Calif., urged the town's sizable radical element to drop the politics of confrontation and try to work within the system. With a well-organized campaign, the radicals did just that. By the scant margin of 56 votes, Berkeley last week elected its first black mayor: Warren Widener, 33, a suave former city council member and protégé of radical Black Congressman Ronald Dellums. The insurgents also gained three of four available seats on the city council, bringing it to an even 4-4 split between leftists and moderates...
...victory scarcely signified a revolution in Berkeley politics. There are bound to be important changes, but the goals of Widener and the radicals are not the furniture of barricades: renewed proposals for community control of police, a city income tax on incomes above $12,000 to ease the current property tax, a special referendum calling for the 18-year-old vote, and a Viet Nam peace initiative...
Steve Morgan of Boston CAN said that busses will leave from Cambridge Common at 2 p. m. Sunday afternoon. He said a key purpose of the rally is to encourage student voter registration. The elections in Berkeley last week showed that students can have a major effort in electoral politics, he added...