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...fired teachers call themselves - 500 Wisconsin teachers poured into town over the Easter recess, staging a mass march and blocking traffic with sitdowns. They were greeted by a truckload of self-styled vigilantes and a group of farmers, who met them at the school with canes and broom handles. Police managed to keep the two sides apart, but the ten days of turmoil resulted in 73 arrests (nearly all for obstructing law officers, with a few for disorderly conduct...
...years. In short order, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) tornado of Australian politics, abolished the draft, and made it clear to both the U.S. and Britain that they could no longer count on unquestioning Aussie support of their Pacific policies. At home his broom was just as brisk, and his Labor government imposed restrictions on big multinational corporations, which control about two-thirds of the country's mining, and gave big boosts to government programs for education, health and transportation...
...terminal. Inside the newstand and bakery are closed, and only a few people here and there wait in the high-ceilinged, dimly-lit hall. A wiry, haunch-backed man, wearing a plain grey uniform, whistles softly as he sweeps the floor with a lazy push of his broom...
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...last week's voting, which allotted seats on the basis of party slate showings rather than to individual candidates, included Armored Force General Shlomo Lahat and outspoken Housewife Shulamit Aloni. Lahat campaigned for mayor of Tel Aviv as though he were waging a military campaign. "Give me a broom and I will sweep this city clean" was his slogan. In a country where sizable numbers of nonpracticing Jews apparently resent the religious laws that apply to everybody, Aloni appeared to have gained at least two seats in the Knesset for her small civil rights party, whose platform called...