Word: gavin
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...student unionization effort has intensified at the Amherst campus in recent months. UMass students elected student government co-presidents Ellen Gavin and Henry Ragin on a unionization platform last fall, and the organizing project has focused on organizing students into various councils centered on issues of dormitory housing, department curriculum and special interest groups...
...Gavin P. Murphy...
...McDonough (whose brother John is chairman of the School Committee) to take over operations of the school. McDonough seemed to be an appropriate choice; a longtime Boston school administrator, he earned praise from both blacks and whites last year for his work in supervising the desegregation of Patrick F. Gavin Middle School. His selection did nothing to mollify antibusing forces. One of their leaders, City Council Member Louise Day Hicks, charged that the takeover "smacks of a totalitarian type of government." She joined others in declaring Friday "a day of mourning" for Southie's lost freedom and called...
...political prisoners thought to be held in Spanish jails. In the view of Spanish legal experts, he could do this by means of an amnesty rather than by using pardons. "There is a very important distinction," one of the government officials told TIME Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott. "An amnesty says you didn't do it. A pardon says you did but you are forgiven...
...Movimiento National (the sole political party allowed), Roman Catholic churchmen and a few Latin American ambassadors arrived to inquire about Franco's health. Among the callers were exiled King Leka of Albania and Nicolas Franco, 37, the dictator's nephew. Young Franco later told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott that he was hardly surprised by his uncle's durability. His own father, Franco's 85-year-old brother, suffered a similar illness four years ago and had been kept alive by drugs and machines. "Today," Nicolas said, "my father spends two hours each day working...