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...eightfold in just a year. The Connecticut-based newsletter, dedicated to keeping "a watchful eye on the vice presidency," has become required reading for 16,000 political junkies. Co-founder Deborah Werksman insists that her magazine treats its subject fairly, and attributes its success to the "high level of civic anxiety" + about the man who could be President...
...disturbances recall the 1970s controversy surrounding so-called black- exploitation movies, a tradition of gangster tales that goes back to Shaft. Civic leaders complain that such movies glamourize crime to an audience that can ill afford the extra temptation. "It plays on the minds of young blacks who are already in trouble," declared the Rev. James Dixon of the Northwest Community Baptist Church in Houston...
...Cambridge, Harvard has created a number of groups that bring together University personnel and city municipal and civic representatives, says Marilyn L. O'Connell, co-director of community relations at Harvard...
Dowds terms the University's civic outreach program a policy of "rural pacification," designed simply to smooth the ruffled feathers of Cambridge citizens. "[Harvard's representatives to the community] are all extremely good at what they do...and they are all extremely determined that what Harvard wants out of the situation will not be denied," he says...
...smiling face, symbol of Czechoslovakia's Civic Forum, may be turning to a frown. Beset by internal wrangling over policy in the newly emancipated nation, the popular alliance that swept the communists out of power 15 months ago and installed dissident playwright Vaclav Havel as President is splitting into two factions, already represented in Parliament: the conservative Club of the Democratic Right (CDR) and the Liberal Club...