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Furthermore, many people do not believe the Selective Service System's claim that 95 per cent of the eligible men complied with the summer registration. BAARD claims 25 per cent, or about one million people, did not register and adds that the turnout this week has also been light. No official statistics are kept by post offices, and the Selective Service has not yet collected any registration cards...
Another CTO organizer, Janet Landsbury, predicted rents could rise as much as 25 per cent this year, on top of increases last year that she said averaged nearly another 25 per cent. "We have to have hundreds of people demanding another rent board hearing so we can protest this," she said...
...each of the speakers stressed that a weak rent control law was better than no rent control at all. In Somerville, where rent control was abolished two years ago, rents have gone up as much as 200 per cent and "students and professionals have forced the low and moderate income tenants out of the city," one Somerville resident told the crowd
...thrust of the campaign, called "Safety in Numbers," is to promote student awareness about the dangers of walking alone. The University Police survey released last November found that 78 per cent of those sexually assaulted and 50 per cent of others assaulted were alone when attacked...
...personal cost because they find it immoral and unwise are courageous and patriotic next to those who legislate the fate of others for the sake of their own personal gain. And those who resist will not be alone--estimates from last summer indicate that between 5 and 25 per cent of American males scheduled to register refused, and many others went along only for fear of the penalties...