Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year. Freshman representative Saundra Graham, who represents the 28th Middlesex district, which includes the area surrounding Harvard Square, was unopposed in the primary. Now she is well on her way to a second term in the Massachusetts House, but for one general election adversary--Freda Lee Mason, a Libertarian...
...clearly an ideological race," a State House source said. Graham is spouting the liberal ideology, and Mason is respresenting the libertarian cry for reduced governmental interference into the lives of individuals...
Graham is not the only incumbent Democrat being opposed by a Libertarian in the upcoming elections. Stephen A. Tringward, a Libertarian, is trying to acquire the State Senate seat which Francis X. McCann has held for 24 years. McCann, who describes himself politically as "a Democrat," is known as a somewhat conservative voice in the Senate. He has been associated with efforts to reduce crime and strengthen the Cambridge Police Department...
...Harvard Chronicle--Here we have a brand-spanking new paper, which published its first three issues last spring. It represents the libertarian political viewpoints. The four-to six-page issues have an amazingly odd range of material in them, mostly denouncing something or other as a threat to individual liberties and so on. Its future is unclear, but it's interesting to watch, even if the writing in it is something short of lucid...
...ordeal of Shcharansky, who had repeatedly been denied permission to emigrate to Israel, was compelling evidence of Soviet efforts to put down Jewish dissidence and of the persistence of traditional antiSemitism. Together, though, the three trials revealed the Kremlin's increasing alarm over the growth of libertarian movements among the Soviet Union's other ethnic minorities and religious groups. It was hardly a coincidence that all three men tried last week were members of unofficial Helsinki Watch Committees that had been formed to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Such groups, which have...