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Most of the committeemen, Tito included, arrived for the trial by car; Defendant Djilas, pale and haggard, came on foot. Through two long, private meetings, the comrades poured out their ire at Djilas' deviations and criticisms. Only one top Communist, Tito's official biographer, Vladimir Dedijer, had a good word for Djilas. Djilas himself confessed that "my attitude was wrong." He added that perhaps he had put his criticisms too strongly and unclearly, and that he had been "frightened" that the Communist bureaucracy might become like Russia's. He was, he insisted, still a "true Marxist...
...elected, the Cambridge voter using the P.R. (number) system of voting was restricted in effect to 1/9th of a vote for 9 councillors. Likewise, from a slate of 18 candidates of which 6 were to be elected, each voter was restricted to 1/6th of a vote for 6 school committeemen. This was tantamount to using a chance or lottery system which is contrary to the American ideal visioned by our founding fathers...
...referenda or special balloting. The result was confusion, misunderstanding, mistakes, and thousands of invalid and blank ballots which went into the waste basket, to say nothing of the limited enfranchisement of the citizen, or the frustration of his right to register a vote for 9 councillors and 6 school committeemen...
Thus, under the P.R. system of voting which is not dependent on the Plan E form of government, but quite independent of such a form of government, the citizens of Cambridge were restricted to 1/9th of the vote for councillors and 1/6th of the vote for school committeemen...
...appeal. But so does the idea of colontea on Mars, and trips through the outer space. But perhaps the committee has overstated its goals for Plan B, much like the salesman who quotes a price twice as high as he is willing to accept. For in a sense the Committeemen are salesmen trying to sell new ideas to a department dominated faculty that is high on sales resistance." Then, quoting a Yale administrator as saying departmentalism "is at odds with innovation and experimentation," the News called the report "the first encouragement that the departments' stranglehold on some aspects of faculty...