Word: council
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organized Tudeh (Communist) Party has been held in check by Khomeini, who denounces the Communists fervently, if redundantly, as "godless atheists." The prevailing view in Washington is that the extreme leftists will continue to ride the Khomeini whirlwind as they gain key positions in the ruling 15-man Revolutionary Council, and will eventually try to brush Khomeini aside in a final grab for power...
Ruth Messinger '62, the self-described "oldest living member of the peace movement," is a member of the New York City Council from the west side district that sent Bella Abzug to Congress. Joining the committee for a Safe Nuclear Policy while still in high school in the 1950s, she worked for the Fred Harris campaigns in Oklahoma in 1963 and 1965, against the Viet Nam war, for low income housing in New York City, for community controlled daycare in the 1970s. And she held a full-time job and raised a family at the same time. When her children...
...admitted socialist win for city council? A pause... "Yeah, I think...
Another opponent of waste storage, Ramona Hamblen, told the council that it should be concerned with more than local problems. "Radiation will travel through the water system. Just because it starts out in Washington doesn't mean it isn't going to end up here," Hamblen added...
...public hearing ended on a fitting note, as a Clamshell organizer dressed as Santa Claus urged the council to ban waste shipments and storage in the city...