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...ACTIONS of the mutineers reflected this belief in local control. After electing a Provisional Revolutionary Committee and imprisoning the prominent loyal Bolsheviks that remained in the area, they adopted their own rations, set their own rules, and began to enact an already agreed-upon political program: the creation of a strong, independent, self-governing soviet that guaranteed extensive intellectual and personal liberties. But the sailors never really attempted by themselves to spread their particular revolt, forcibly or otherwise. They leafletted sporadically in the Petrograd area and in the end felt somewhat betrayed by the city's inaction, but they never...
...Andrew Young, 38, a black minister of the United Church of Christ and a former aide to the late Martin Luther King Jr., is seeking a congressional seat from Georgia for a different reason. Though opposed to the war, he wants political office in order to enact more extensive civil rights legislation...
That language might have been appropriate for combatting the sweeping McGovern-Hatfield provision, known as the "amendment to end the war." Actually, there is little chance that even the Senate, where antiwar sentiment is stronger than in the House, will enact the McGovern-Hatfield amendment in its present form. But the Ziegler blast was aimed at the more imminent and modest Cooper-Church measure on Cambodia...
...experience of Medicare and Medicaid, and multiply its consequences ten times over. Without prior planning, preparation and creation of basic resources, we would invite literal chaos." That was literal truth if the operative word in Finch's statement was now. There is no prospect that Congress will enact a comprehensive insurance program and expect to have it working...
...marked by the beginnings of an amazing coalition of white student groups pledged totally in support of the BAM demands: International Socialists, SDS, New Mobe, Student Mobilization Committee, Young Democrats, and Phoenix Anarchists formally backed the BAM demands and joined the call for the strike. Women's Liberation and ENACT (Environmental Action) also organizationally backed the strike and the demands, though less formally. The official Student Government Council, the representative student government, voted support for the demands, joined the strike, and gave BAM some $2,200 worth of duplicating materials and supplies...