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...looting in New York City is a tragic indication of what the welfare program is doing to this country. People who work and earn a living know the worth of private property; they would not shamelessly destroy the livelihood of others...
...Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system and drives many elderly persons into poverty and despair...
Since Mrs. Gandhi imposed authoritarian rule so effortlessly in June 1975, many friends of India had sadly concluded that the nation's rural masses were preoccupied with matters of food and livelihood and cared little about such transplanted blessings of a democratic society as freedom of speech, assembly and the press, and due process under the law. In what may well have been the world's most important elections since World War II, the Indian masses demonstrated eloquently that this...
...hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic for Social Studies tutorials, in this institution. Harvard is run by a bureaucratic dictatorship, properly fueled and oiled by corporate money, revealing in its internal organization and government...
...course, no new Administration can be expected to provide relief from the choking dust and cloudless skies. But Westerners are looking for at least some help from Washington in protecting their lands and livelihood. Said Ron Francis, director of the Denver-based American National Cattlemen's Association: "We are against Government support in general. We support the law of supply and demand, but we need price support and emergency livestock loans." In Douglas County, Wash., Rancher Gary Dalin swelled with pride because his 16-year-old daughter Heidi had just been named local Beef Princess. But in other respects...