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After the police had cleared the building, the interior was found to be in a state of complete disarray. One reporter from the student newspaper, The Daily Californian, who was inside before the police came said, "It's my opinion that the police did more damage than the students...
Humphrey's organizational problems are symptomatic of the Democratic Party's disarray. With the Wallace faction and the antiwar wing sapping his strength from right to left, the Vice President has tried to create a centrist constituency of his own. Thus far, his principal positive support has come from leaders of organized labor. Their muscle, of course, is not inconsiderable. Last week a poll of 2,638 United Auto Workers representatives showed 87.8% favoring Humphrey. The executive board of the Teamsters Union urged its 1.9 million members to vote for the Vice President...
Portugal is Western Europe's poorest nation. Its population numbers under 9,000,000, and its natural resources are scant. Before Salazar came to power, the land was in chronic economic chaos and political disarray: in 161 years it had had 45 governments, some lasting only days. As Premier after 1932, Salazar squashed partisan quarreling with dictatorial measures and brought order to the economy by applying conservative, pre-Keynesian fiscal policies. By the late 1930s, he was flirting openly with fascism. He backed Franco against the Spanish Republicans. While Portugal remained neutral in World War II, Salazar at first...
...Tory Disarray. What must please Harold Wilson most, though, is the spectacle of the Tory Party in disarray at a time when it should be united against him. While he may be the least popular Prime Minister in three decades, Wilson has the pleasure of knowing that Tory Leader Ted Heath is the least-regarded opposition leader of the era. Heath is having as much difficulty controlling the Tories as Wilson is having with Labor. Last spring, when right-wing M.P. Enoch Powell unleashed a virulent anti-immigration speech in Birmingham. Heath fired him from the shadow Cabinet. Two weeks...
...education has lost its moorings; some charged that new catechisms recently introduced into parochial schools are heretical. For all their zeal, the Wanderers concede that they are fighting a lonely battle to preserve the true faith. "Orthodoxy is now on the run," said one speaker, "its foot soldiers in disarray...