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...Harvey Burg, an ACLU lawyer who has been working steadily on registration problems, said last night that it is very difficult legally to prove discrimination against a particular class--in this case, students--if the rejections have occurred one at a time...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Friday Register-In Set for Cambridge | 10/7/1971 | See Source »

Lowenstein, along with Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.) and Harvey Burg, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in Boston, spoke to about 80 students in the Winthrop House JCR to help publicize a 'Register for Peace and New Priorities' voter registration rally scheduled for October 8, from noon to 7 p.m. in Boston's City Hall Plaza...

Author: By Mark Welshimer, | Title: Lowenstein, Riegle Stress Primary Vote | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

...meantime, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union lawyer Harvey M. Burg had filed a class action suit in Federal District Court on the behalf of four students who had been denied the right to register. Charging violations of the First, Fifth, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments, the suit sought to enjoin the Cambridge Election Commission from "subjecting students and other young persons to burdens of identification and proof and proceedings more onerous than those to which adults and other persons have been subjected" when attempting to register to vote...

Author: By Lynn M. Derling, | Title: Our Voting Commissioners: Gee, We're Sorry but... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...which had asked the court to issue a restraining order directing the commissioners to provisionally register persons between the ages of 18 and 21 and to accept ballots from such persons on a separate roll pending court action, he did set a September 9 hearing date for the suit. Burg asked in addition that the court request from the Election Commission specific reasons, in writing, why his clients had been prohibited from registering...

Author: By Lynn M. Derling, | Title: Our Voting Commissioners: Gee, We're Sorry but... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...longueurs of the rest of the film. The Last Valley wanders into confusion. Caine leaves Sharif in charge of the town, and Sharif, too "humane" to kill the priest and the merchant, falls prey to their machinations. A cogent ambivalence is presented but finally discarded: Caine has advocated the burg's destruction during the spring thaw, feeling that its inhabitants were under the thumbs of their traditional leaders, and that it would merely become a refuge for future foes. Sharif-perhaps enchanted by the mere physical beauty-opposes him. Caine is finally ambushed, which would have proved him correct...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Movies The Last Valley at the Gary | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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