Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power Struggle. Why all the artillery? As the cops figure it, the thugs were less afraid of a police bust than of each other. The meeting in the mountains was apparently called to settle a power struggle between the younger Mafiosi, who are keen on such things as dope smuggling, kidnaping and other urban crimes, and their extortion-oriented elders, who have been taking a pounding from the police lately. Over the past two years, Calabrian officials, using special legislation, have sent 274 Mafiosi into "enforced residence" in Northern Italy, threatened another 789 with similar exile, put 198 under surveillance...
...Vice President and one of the few men Franco really trusts. He is also the probable choice for Premier under a restored monarchy. El Caudillo apparently listened when Carrero Blanco and López Rodó pointed out to him that the competent Opus Dei technocrats would do less boat-rocking than the Falangists. As a result, technocrats got key posts in the new Cabinet announced last week. Gregorio López Bravo, 45, the former Minister of Industry, was promoted to Foreign Minister. Technocrats also took over the finance, commerce, industry, housing, information and tourism posts...
Falangists greeted the appointments angrily. Shouting "Falange, si. Opus Dei, no!", they demonstrated through Madrid's streets last week. Other Spaniards pointed out that the appointments by no means indicate a shift to a less dictatorial Spain. Said one Madrileňo, who belongs to the order himself: "This means an economic opening up to Europe, but it does not necessarily mean liberalism at home. There is not one man on the list you could call even moderately left...
Even though she has no taste for the stuff herself, as far as Margaret Mead is concerned, puffing on pot is not a dangerous pastime. In Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee studying drug abuse, the aging (67) but very much tuned-in anthropologist asserted that marijuana is less toxic than tobacco and milder than booze. What is harmful, she said, is the law banning the drug. As she put it: "There is the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other telling the child. 'You cannot.' " The answer, Dr. Mead told...
...university documents that were "liberated" (stolen) during a sit-in last May. Among them: a detailed list of faculty salaries, plus strong evidence that Stanford values researchers far more than teachers. According to the filched papers, a political scientist admired by students for undergraduate teaching gets $6,500 less a year than professors known best for research. One memo from a department chairman ridiculed an able teacher for publishing little besides a revision of his doctoral dissertation and vetoed, despite inflation, his salary raise on the ground that he is not sufficiently "productive...