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...apportioning seats among the parties relative to the number of votes each receives; the leader of the party that gleans a simple majority becomes prime minister. The distribution of votes, however, will be staggered into three rounds. In order to participate in the second round, a party must obtain 17 per cent of the popular support, a coalition of three parties (for which only the extreme left qualifies) must obtain 30 per cent of the electoral balloting. These provisions purge the communist left and divert its votes at an early stage of the parcelling to the rightist majority...
...BLACK STUDENT struggle at Southern represented an effort by students to obtain some type of dignity out of a position of powerlessness. They sought to gain a say in the daily decision-making process. In their attempts to transform the institution of Southern, black students maintained a clear distinction between the educational system. In their pamphlet, "Support Your Struggle," Students United wrote: "These are the same capitalistic and imperialistic forces [the financial interests that run the Louisiana black community] which grant various monies to Southern University such as Gulf Oil Company, IBM, etc.... Gulf Oil aids Portugal in her atrocities...
...another Mitchell attorney, Plato Cacheris, who drew the admission that Magruder had put aside $6,000 in campaign funds for his own use. Magruder sheepishly insisted that the money was for "legitimate expenses," especially legal costs, but conceded that he had told the FBI that he had tried to obtain money "for self-preservation" after the Watergate breakin...
...reason for the "striking inconsistency" between the amount of time the two groups require to obtain their degrees, Gay said, is that "black students on the whole feel a greater sense of alienation from the environment than white students...
Another objection to the law is the possibility that a prospective employer might force the job applicants to obtain a copy of the entire file and include it within applications for employment. The student loses the protection from the extortion of outside parties which Harvard offered although other schools did not, and gains the right to see the file himself...