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Both the rising criticism and the newly mild presidential response were on display last week, when Reagan visited Manhattan to receive a gold medal from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for "courageous leadership in governmental, civic and humanitarian affairs." In contrast to the friendly demonstrations that had greeted the President in Oklahoma only the week before, thousands of outraged protesters outside the New York Hilton Hotel broke into chants of "Money for jobs, not for war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" Ten blocks away, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, 300 people, including a few members...
...President summoned leaders of 100 business and civic groups to the White House for a meeting at which Armco Chairman C. William Verity Jr., head of Reagan's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, set a goal of persuading corporations and individuals to increase greatly their charitable contributions during the next four years. That was another attempt to portray Reagan as a man of compassion, but one who believes the poor should be helped as much as possible by voluntary charity rather than Government benefits. At week's end the President hosted a White House lunch...
Traditionally supporting the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) on housing issues, but having won the Mayor's chair in January on the basis of conservative Independent support, Vellucci now seems confused about where he should lend his crucial swing vote on the divided council. Seems, however, is the key word here...
...Wisconsin win, coupled with its 6-1 triumph over Harvard on Saturday night, clinched the two-game, total goals, NCAA quarter-final series for the Badgers, 10-4, sending them into next weekend's NCAA championships at the Civic Center in Providence...
Denying seismophobia is a matter of civic pride in San Benito County. Explains Edna Martin, manager of the Howard Manor apartments in Hollister: "You get used to the small ones. You feel the rumble, but that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety...