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...hollow victory for the rebellious citizens because the lawmakers were quickly forced to impose some of the nation's highest taxes on sales (61%), on gasoline (100 per gal.) and on cigarettes (210 per pack). In Kansas City, voters last December defeated a property tax increase that civic leaders of both parties had campaigned hard for on the. grounds that it was urgently needed to improve the city's schools. Across the country, citizens last year voted down 65% of all bond issues proposed to build new schools, hospitals, sewage plants and other facilities v. an average...
...division of scientific publications, maintains that the decision to publish the articles was made purely on editorial grounds and did not pose any question of ethics. Nor can Edwin Hoiman, secretary of the A.M.A.'s judicial council, find anything wrong with the notices. "Doctors have a civic responsibility," he says, "and it is a decision that the individual doctor has to make as to whether or not he is to call the law." On the other hand, Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, president of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences in Hastings-on-Hudson. N.Y., points out that...
...arrests were the result of the subsequent protest movement of individual Ukrainian dissidents. Odajnyk said. "What the 19 individuals were demanding was the internal implementation of the human and civic liberties guaranteed them by the Soviet constitution," Odajnyk said...
...woman), they were stunned at the sight of some 200,000 Chinese pouring onto the streets to remove the snow that had fallen during the visit. A compulsory exercise? To be sure, citizens who neglected their ditties would be severely chastised. But the visitors detected a civic spirit and camaraderie that are spectacularly lacking in the present-day U.S. In the long run, one of the most important questions about the U.S. and China will be just how much the two countries may learn from each other...
...rally preceded the canceled speech. SDS spokesmen charged Herrnstein with propagating racist theories on intelligence and unemployment. The rally then moved from the center of the campus to the Civic Research Center to confront Herrnstein...