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After a decidedly lackluster campaign, the council emerged almost unchanged on the survive. Eight of the nine incumbents won re-election, and the balance of power between the four liberal. Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-backed councilors, the four conservative Independents and the self-proclaimed swing vote Alfred F. Vellucci remained intact...
Diamond claims that Bundy and Pusey, both familiar with Diamond's membership in the Communist party until soon after World War II, challenged him about whether he would speak with "civic authorities" about his involvement. Diamond says he followed the advice of colleagues and explained that he would speak about his own involvement, but not about that of others. This wasn't good enough for Bundy and Puzey, Diamond claims, and he didn...
...visit came at the invitation of President Raúl Alfonsín, who has been cultivating Isabel in an effort to improve his standing with the Perónist party. Alfonsín's Radical Civic Union Party scored a stunning upset victory over the Perónists in elections last October, marking the party's first defeat in a national election since the rise of Juan Perón in 1946. By forging a coalition among Radicals, conservatives and blue-collar workers, Alfonsín captured 52% of the vote, and his party gained control...
...Mary. But the privately run Louisiana Lottery, which flourished after the Civil War and depended on nationwide sales, was notoriously corrupt. To stop misuse, Congress in 1895 banned interstate commerce by lottery operators. Today lotteries still draw fire on moral grounds. Declares Jack Wyman, a lobbyist for the Christian Civic League of Maine: "Government financing by gambling encourages citizens to indulge their weaknesses...
...last month in San Francisco, the Sparts gained national attention and support when one member of the Spartacus League, Ritchie Bradley, climbed the flag pole and tore a Confederate Flag down from above the San Francisco Civic Center, and threw it to the ground, where a crowd of 100 burned it. Bradley was wearing the uniform of the Union Army and climbed a pole that was more than 40 feet high, while demonstrators reportedly chanted. "The flag of slavery flies no more Time to finish the Civil...