Word: civic
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Typically enough, Detroit's upheaval started with a routine police action. Seven weeks ago, in the Virginia Park section of the West Side, a "blind pig" (afterhours club) opened for business on Twelfth Street, styling itself the "United Community League for Civic Action." Along with the booze that it offered to minors, the "League" served up black-power harangues against Whitey's exploitation...
Former Vice-President Walter Mondale and defeated 1972 Democratic nominee George McGovern are also scheduled to speak to the 1500 to 2000 expected delegates today at the Augusta Civic Center. The candidates' scheduled 15-minute spiels are set to begin promptly at 10:21 a.m., followed by the non-binding afternoon straw vote...
CLAGA spokesman Lesley Phillips said the group is the first of its kind in Cambridge, and that it is part of "a nationwide grassroots organizing of gay and lesbian people." There are now more than 130 political and civic gay groups in every state, she added...
Seventeen out of the 32 candidates showed up at the meeting, including incumbent city councilors Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, David E. Sullivan, David A. Wylie, all endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci. Challengers present included Richard Branson, Francis Budryk, William L. Durette Jr. '85 and Alice Wolf, another CCA-endorsed candidate...
...that it intends to preserve its firm grip on Mexican politics. One example of adroit political maneuvering could be seen in the town of Juchitán (pop. 110,000), whose predominantly Indian population had grown increasingly sympathetic to the militant leftist coalition COCEI, which has energetically implemented popular civic reforms. The P.R.I, did not take any legal action last spring when the COCEl reinstalled a radical peasant, Leopoldo de Gyves, as mayor of Juchitán. But as the elections approached, the ruling party began to assert its power. Government-run Oaxacan newspapers ran spurious accounts of fizzled COCEI...