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There were other grapplings last week in the continual struggle for advantage between Democratic Congress and Republican President. Among them: >After delaying for nearly a year, Chairman Mills came up with his own version of the revenue-sharing program that Nixon once proposed and later was forced to defer because of Mills' opposition, and because the federal deficit has already reached a record high. The Mills plan would pass along roughly the same amounts of money; under it, for five years state governments would get $1.8 billion annually from federal revenues, and local governments $3.5 billion. But Mills rejected...
...uprising at Columbia, nearly half the students who "liberated" university buildings were girls from Barnard College. But while the men mounted the barricades, the women mostly sat in the back rooms, cranking out leaflets or making peanut-butter sandwiches. Many of them resolved then and there never again to defer to male "machismo trippers." Since that time, the cause of Women's Lib in academe has flourished. Next to local voting rights, it is now the most visible cause on major campuses that otherwise seem free of controversy and revolt this year...
...week's end the environmentalists had failed to get their injunction, though under court order the Government did hand over the environmental-impact reports for the judge's perusal. If an injunction is issued, Schlesinger says he will defer to Justice Department opinion...
...Radcliffe Union of Students voted last night to support the new Radcliffe Women's Center in principle and to give it $600 in seed money. RUS decided to defer consideration of the center's major funding request until its next legislative meeting on November...
...petitioned President Nixon on August 13 to release three Air Force enlisted men imprisoned in Vietnam for refusing to carry weapons. Acting as president of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee--a group formed last year to give free legal representation to servicemen in Vietnam--Nesson asked the President to defer the three men's sentences during appeal of their convictions...