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...undisclosed corruption or incompetence of leaders than by any demoralization that comes from disclosure." Says a relaxed George Reedy, dean of Marquette University's journalism school: "For a while every reporter was out to be Woodward and Bernstein. Ten years ago, it was Tom Wolfe and participatory journalism. Fifteen or 20 years ago, it was James Reston. The fads come...
...girl feels that the discipline at Manter Hall is too strict. "You can't cut classes here," she complains. "If you're fifteen minutes late in the morning, they call your house, and the entire school knows about it." She feels that detentions are handed out too frequently for petty matters and objects to required study hall when she has no work. She also objects to the dress code, which prohibits blue jeans, halter tops, shorts, and short dresses. "Mr. Hall is too conservative, too old-fashioned," she complains...
...tell exactly how many acts of violence ETA has been responsible for over the past five years. It is unlikely that they have perpetrated all they have claimed. ETA has been called the "Spanish equivalent of the IRA" but this comparison is valid in spirit only. ETA has over fifteen separate, independent factions, no viable central organization and receives outside help randomly...
Underground party members in Spain were bereft of central command during the long exile, necessitating local and regional decision-making. The growth of illegal workers' commissions, dominated by party members over the last fifteen years, confirms the trend. These factory-based councils have ties to the PCE but possess limitless autonomy. Laborers set up the commissions to defend their wage-and-hour interests in a way that the Francoist Sindicacio Nacional does not. The councils have no set programs, no dues and no distinctions are made between members and non-members. The activist membership which the commissions channel into...
...cats. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife packed their belongings, including one of the world's largest private collections of erotic and scatological literature, and moved to France. Since the death of his wife in 1966, he has remarried and fathered three children. The Legman home is on fifteen acres in Valbonne...