Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...councilor challenges the view of Gordon C. Strachan, who told the Watergate Committee this summer that young people should "stay away" from Washington. "I think politics is a potentially noble thing to do, and I don't agree that it's dangerous for decent people," Moncreiff says. "I do think it's worth getting involved...
Speaking in favor of the petition were representatives of the Harvard Square Task Force, Neighborhood Ten Association, Planning for People, and the Cambridge Civic Association, as well as Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, dean of Admissions and Studies at the School of Education...
...primary school population to 34%. Some school administrators announced that they would pay for free milk out of local property taxes, but Mrs. Thatcher put through a bill making this illegal. Even then, the poor Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil went on distributing free milk because, as School Councilor Bryn Watkins said, "we know all about malnutrition, rickets and TB here." That revolt ended when local officials were notified that they would be personally liable for the milk bills of $5,200 a term...
...strongly opposed violence and criticized the guerrilla tactics of the army's more militant Provisionals. But the Provisionals, as it happens, were also busy. Two days after Barnhill's death, seven raids were made on the homes of wealthy Protestants-most of them magistrates or city councilors-in Belfast's Malone Road district, hitherto untouched by terrorism. Two houses were wrecked by bombs, the husband of Edith Taggart, Ulster's only woman Senator, was struck with a pistol butt, the wife of a city councilor was slightly wounded by gunshot, and a reserve army sergeant...
...from indifference to incomprehension. Few of the 96,000 whites-chiefly Afrikaners, Germans and Britons-doubt that South African rule is for the best. Among blacks, there is tribal loyalty but no feeling of nationhood. Says Dr. Romanus Kapungu, a doctor in canon law from Rome University and chief councilor of the Kavango tribal authority: "If you asked most of our people, they wouldn't know what all the fuss is about...