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...appalled and enraged by the flagrant abuse of civil freedom exhibited by individuals in the Harvard community during the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association publicity campaign for Gay Wednesday (December 11). Members of our organization, including myself, spent hours of their time putting up flyers announcing the event, as is customary for any organization to do. Within one day, I observed that more than half of these flyers had been ripped down, even from such places as the Freshman Union Bulletin board and the Pusey Library fence. The number of flyers intact continued to decrease from...
Members of the association deplored what they called harassment by members of the Harvard community. One member called the removal of posters from approved bulletin boards a "flagrant abuse of civil freedom." He also cited the defacement of a "Gay Wednesday" sign on the Pusey Library fence with the words "Necrophiliac Thursday" and "Child Molester Friday...
Poland's Communist Party chief, Edward Gierek, told your correspondents at least three flagrant lies...
...stories over seven months, the Indianapolis Star has published accounts of police abuses and corruption: flagrant examples of bribery, theft, extortion and protecting prostitutes. Though the exposé series caused a shake-up of police leadership, Marion County Prosecutor Noble Pearcy has obtained indictments of only five cops. But next week the Star's marathon sleuthing will produce a chilling and unexpected result: two of the paper's investigative reporters are to be arraigned on charges of conspiring to bribe a police lieutenant...
...economists' minisummit this week, Heller will propose a wide-ranging program featuring a Government wage-price agency that could subpoena company and union records, order large increases suspended while it held hearings, and even roll back "really flagrant" boosts. Other Heller ideas that are widely backed by liberals include: an immediate easing in Federal Reserve monetary policy to head off a recession; credit controls to channel more loan money to home builders and buyers and small businesses, less to speculators; a huge Government program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs; tax cuts of $6 billion...