Word: council
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Police Detective Charles S. Stenvig, 41, an independent with a ragtag organization, rolled over Republican City Council President Dan Cohen. Stenvig took city hall with 62% of the vote, amassing majorities of up to 81% in working-class areas. Cohen, 33, a Harvard Law School graduate, had the backing of the city's powerful labor leaders and the endorsement of big names, including Richard Nixon and Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. Yet Stenvig carried all but two of the city's 13 wards. The result was all the more astonishing because, with a Negro population of just 3%, Minneapolis...
...other dealings abroad, Pompidou has shown no strong urge to renounce Gaullist policy wholesale, but he will undoubtedly make changes in the long run. He spoke recently of the "difficulties" of admitting Britain to the Common Market, but would quietly reseat France at council meetings of the West European Union, the only organization that groups Britain with the six Common Market nations...
...Orleans, the new code provides only one narrow loophole. Because several judges protested that the ban on nonjudicial activities was too sweeping, an exception was made for services in the public interest, such as teaching at law schools-provided that approval is obtained from the appropriate judicial council, that the services do not interfere with judicial duties, and that the pay is publicly announced...
...Eugene Carson Blake, LL.D., general secretary, World Council of Churches. Few men have sought with such vigor to bring to fruition the one visible universal church...
March 18: The SFAC passed a resolution asking that one of its elected members--a student on probation for the Paine Hall sit-in--be permitted to serve and vote on the council...