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...under the redistricting plan, they will share a single representative with either upper or lower Cape Cod. Complaining that they will be deprived of an individual representative for the first time since the 17th century, some islanders threatened secession (TIME, March 21, 1977). New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson muddied the waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that as undertaxed New Hampshirites, they would be able to buy the same bottle of Scotch that now costs...
Plans for the demonstration had been viewed with alarm by Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., and with something approaching hysteria by William Loeb, the abrasively conservative editor of the Manchester Union Leader, who likened the protesters to "Nazi storm troopers under Hitler." But when Thomson helicoptered to the site the day after the occupation, he was greeted politely by the demonstrators despite his insistence that they leave. "You have the right to an opinion opposite to that of other people, and you have come to let the world know your side," Thomson told the protesters. "But," he added, "you are violating...
...drives. But Clamshell differs from these movements because the women involved have roles at least as large and important as the men's. On April 30 about half the occupiers and three of Clamshell's four principal leaders were women. Women brought Clamshell's case to New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson, and a woman spoke to the predominantly male press corps at a press conference before the occupation...
...state government had obtained a court injunction early last week that ruled the 40-acre building area off-limits to demonstrators; as compensation, Gov. Meldrim Thomson vowed last week that no demonstrators would be arrested as long as they remained outside of the restricted portion of the site. Yet observance of these stipulations did not protect the "anti-nuke" protesters from eventual arrest on Sunday afternoon. As a handful of Harvard undergraduates sit at this moment in a Manchester, N.H. armory for their participation in the occupation, our thoughts remain with them and their fellow prisoners, and we urge...
...Democrats. A prostatehood candidate won office in Puerto Rico. A generally youthful group of G.O.P. hopefuls scored impressive wins in Delaware, Illinois and Vermont. The Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat with an awesome...