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Like Conyers, I came to the ADA meeting in search of liberals, wondering about their demise, and trying to pin down a thesis that they were the big losers at Convention '76. And as with Conyers, it didn't take me long to realize that the liberals were indeed on...
Representative John Conyers, a liberal from Michigan, was on the prowl. He was looking for liberal delegates to sign a petition for Representative Ron Dellums' vice presidential candidacy, and when he sauntered into the Americans for Democratic Action cocktail party last Wednesday, he figured he could gather all the signatures...
"How many delegates are here?" the banlon-shirted Conyers asked as he walked into the fairly crowded ADA suite. After a second of counting, a surprised Conyers exclaimed, "Only three delegates in the whole goddamned hall." It's true, the ADA, institutionalized liberalism at its best, had attracted only three...
Seven other people addressed the rally, sponsored by the Massachusetts Coalition for Amnesty, including Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Rev. Paul Deats, a professor at the Boston University School of Theology, and Austin Hodge, an exiled resister who said he intended to turn himself into authorities following the rally.
Another possibility is registration or licensing. Massachusetts passed a law last spring imposing a mandatory one-year sentence on anybody caught with an unlicensed gun away from his home or place of business. It is still too early to tell if the law will be a deterrent; much depends on...