Word: points
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...weekend combines politics with survival. Participants work out a 16-point "platform to revitalize America." Among the proposals: U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, an end to all foreign aid, repudiation of the national debt, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and repeal of federal and state income tax laws. The delegates listen to a parade of speakers decry Communism, Zionism, U.S. foreign policy, Big Government, and politicians who ignore their constituents...
...Kennedy brothers, the youngest, the most vulnerable, the most thoroughly political, is finally running for President. For more than a decade, he has distorted American presidential politics, three times a possible candidate and three times pulling back. "I would like to be President," he said at one point, "but not at this time." Now, disdainful of Carter's leadership, he has decided that the time is right. After a considerable amount of coy public indecision, he is expected to announce this week that he has formed a campaign committee, headed by Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith, 52, who helped...
...this point, it seems likely that the Carter-Kennedy battle will continue through the rest of the primaries, perhaps culminating in the free-for-all of eight primaries on June 3. Voters in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota and West Virginia will elect 696 delegates, more than one-fifth of the total that will select the party's presidential nominee at the convention in New York City in August...
When Harvard, or any other major research university, waits to get its point across--whether it be a bill in Congress or a regulation in front of a federal agency--it sends its skilled lobbying troops down to Capitol Hill. Harvard's office of government relations, says Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, tries to serve as lobbyist for Radcliffe too. "In the community," Schmidt says, Radcliffe "is indivisible as far as we're concerned...
Radcliffe does not have its own office of government or community affairs, nor does it have staff people who, like the people in Grays Hall, do nothing but lobby for Harvard. When Radcliffe has a point to make, officials have one of two options. As spokesmen for many of the Seven Sisters say, the best bet is to put the college president on the phone. Horner says that, given a specific issue, she doesn't hesitate to pick up the phone and call Patricia R. Harris, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Contacting the political people...