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...heart, however, De Gaulle's main objections to British entry were political. He could understand, he said, why Britain had at first refused to join the Common Market: because it "is not Continental, remains involved with the seas beyond" and "is tied to the United States by all sort of special accords." De Gaulle feels that the British see themselves as a world power rather than as a European power-and would therefore pose a distinct threat to France's current dominance of the Common Market. Letting the British in, he said, would force "the Continentals to renounce...
...main thrust of Y.W. activities these days is directed toward social action in the community. The St. Louis association, for instance, has started a letter-writing campaign to persuade the Missouri legislature to enact a fair-housing law. In Cincinnati, under a Y.W.-sponsored program social workers go to old-age nursing homes to entertain and teach lonely inmates recreational skills. Y.W. members now run a number of local Job Corps, Head Start and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. In another tie-in with the federal antipoverty program, 27 Y.W. centers are opening their residences to 1,800 girls just...
...main goals of Palazzo and the others-getting the House to be a de-centralized unit in itself and getting changes in parietal regulations that the vast majority of the College wants-would be served by pressing for House autonomy. Magraw said a few days ago that he was considering this, thinking about making it one of the recommendations of his group in the Fall. If it happens, then something very important will come of all the sound and fury and maybe Palazzo and all the others who think that "students can change things here" will be vindicated
HOUSTON, TEXAS -- To most Houstonians, Wheeler Street means only one thing: Negro. Like Dowling, West Dallas, Gray, and Elgin, Wheeler is one of the main arteries of Black Houston. As with the others, traffic on Wheeler is heavy throughout the day, and during rush hours, it is often bumper-to-bumper. But for the last month, Wheeler, in the five-block vicinty of Houston's predominantly Negro Texas Southern University, has been transformed. The first sign of trouble came one day last month, when Wheeler was filled with people, some three to four hundred chanting and singing T.S.U. students...
...indefinitely suspended by Dean Jones in December for making boisterous speeches in the university's coffee shop, led a march through the halls of campus buildings, warning students in the classrooms that if they did not join the boycott, they would be locked in. Several of the university's main doors were boarded and chained closed, and students blocked off Wheeler Street, protesting the "highway through our campus...