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William H. Read, a research fellow in the Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, said this week the less developed nations for the first time control more than two-thirds of the conference's votes. He added, they could overturn the present laissez-faire principles of frequency distribution, which favor developed nations. "What are the incentives not to change the political rules of the game if you are the have-nots?" Read said...
...Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, recently assessed the political prospects of key U.S. allies in the Far East. Its conclusion: while South Korea and Thailand face internal political threats that could lead to acceptable changes in their current governments, the Philippines faces a threat that could overturn the system of government itself. The worry in Washington is that even Marcos' non-Communist opposition, though still largely fragmented, is deepening and becoming more radical. The longer the President clings to a brand of autocracy that he calls "constitutional authoritarianism," it is feared, the more he could radicalize...
...Middlesex Superior Court justice could overturn the council's actions Thursday, however. School committee candidate Alice Wolf filed suit last week seeking an injunction against enforcement of the sign ordinance, claiming it unconstitutionally denied freedom of speech to Cambridge residents...
...overturn this hypocritical society, Marcuse did not urge a revolt of the masses. He disdained the working class for its materialism. The common people, he lamented, we're "disinclined to risk their relative prosperity for abstract and Utopian ideas." Revolution, he believed, lay with a special elite he described as a "democratic educational dictatorship of free men" in his influential essay, Repressive Tolerance. And the Utopia they would create? Marcuse was rather hazy except to suggest that somehow people could continue to enjoy all the good things of life without having to pay the price for them...
Still, eight of the twelve members of the House committee went along with the view that there was enough evidence in both the King and Kennedy cases to warrant the Justice Department's continuing the investigation, although nothing was found to overturn the basic conclusion of the Warren Commission 15 years ago: that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report...