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...group of Boston area civic organizations and university students, including Harvard members, announced yesterday a drive to circulate petitions at polling places on election day calling for the impeachment of President Nixon. Cambridge, Somerville and Boston will be holding municipal elections on Tuesday, November...
...Civic groups sponsoring the drive include the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Americans for Democratic Action, Citizens for Participation in Political Action and the Indo-China Peace Campaign...
...schools, and new work-study programs. In 1971 Callahan founded Students United through Politics for Educational Reform (SUPER). SUPER is credited with the creation of the Student Concerns subcommittee of the School Committee. Now a student at UMass, he is a member of the advisory board of the Cambridge Civic Association. He seems headed for a career as a genuinely radical reformer in Cambridge. He ran for State Representative last year, and has the backing of the CCA, Cambridge People's Party. The Common Slate, and the Cambridge Women's Political Caucus...
Rallies, marches and meetings are being held everywhere. In Los Angeles, 2,000 people turned up at the Century Plaza to hear their favorite Gentile champion, Senator Henry Jackson. The Chicago Civic Center was jammed with 5,000 people who applauded an enraged Mayor Richard Daley: "Go ahead, Israelites. Be sure to remove every Arab from the soil of Israel." The same night, 70,000 showed up at temples and synagogues for a fund-raising effort that included an appearance by Senator Edmund Muskie...
Leverett got into the act in March when Master Leigh Hoadley and the Leverett House Civic Improvement Society proposed a connection between Gore and McKinlock Halls. The new wing over Plympton St. would support a bell tower and include a tunnel for pedestrians, automobiles and a trolley. "If people are going to resist, we shall arm and march tomorrow," Arthur N. Schwarz '56, president of the Civic Society, said...