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...wanted to demonstrate that there is very broad support for gay rights and civil liberties among straight students here." Szanton said, adding. "This many signatures will make it very hard for the Faculty Council to just dismiss the issue...
...demonstrators showed their approval with cries of "Recall! Recall!", referring to the City Council's proposed recall bill that would allow for referenda to dismiss elected public officials...
...dismiss the Dowling Committee report as "meaningless" would be to pass up an opportunity to increase student input into decisions that directly affect them. Under the present system, the student voice is diffused, channeled into a handful of unrelated committees that rarely sound their ideas off the entire student body and into a Student Assembly that the Faculty does not even officially recognize. But by mandating that all undergraduate committee members be drawn from a student council, the proposed system allows for more organized and unified--and, therefore, representative--student government. Because student committee members would report back...
...dismiss the advantages of a parliamentary form of government for the U.S. as going "one step too far." Our system of checks and balances, designed by a frontier community at a time of deep distrust of both royal executive prerogatives and the tyranny of the masses, has become an anachronism. This generation has witnessed the debilitating spectacle of a President trying to operate with a Congress controlled by the opposition. Will it take a political Mount St. Helens to blast us into recognizing the need for a more effective way of governing ourselves...
Peasants in the parched countryside report that many of the revolutionary bands are near starvation, but it is too early to dismiss the leftist cause. The rebels are said to be regrouping and waiting for the May rainy season to launch new attacks. They continue to blow up a power line here and cut telephone wires there in the sort of skirmishing that can drag on interminably, with neither side able to claim victory. "The army has fought the guerrillas to a draw," said one U.S. official in San Salvador last week. "The conflict could...