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Cambridge's unique electoral system, Proportional Representation (PR), assures that the diversity of the City will be reflected in the City council. Under PR, voters rank their choices for Council in order (1, 2, 3, etc.). A quota for election is set; after a candidate has reached the quota, his surplus votes are redistributed among his supporters' second choices. After several days of such shuffling, a new council is finally elected. Few Cambridge residents outside of political circles understand the mechanics of the system; all the politicians know its implication--the way to get elected is to seize and hold...
Lithuanians in Canada by Pr. Gaida, S. Kairys, J. Kardelis, J. Puzinas, A. Rinkunas and J. Sungaila...
...Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily to the Soviet charge. "An insult without parallel," said the newspaper Práce. Lidová Demokracie called the story "a gross falsification of our history" and "slander...
Increasingly at liberty to speak their own minds, Czechoslovak newspaper and radio columnists fueled the scare. "For God's sake," a Radio Prague commentator addressed Moscow, "don't repeat the tragic experience of Yugoslavia and Hungary." Práce, the trade-union newspaper, editorialized that "any sort of military intervention represents such an adventurist policy that it is unbelievable that any member or responsible body such as the Soviet Central Committee could take it into consideration...
Sundering the Bloc. Práce was most likely correct. Any Soviet attack on Czechoslovakia à la Hungary 1956 would have horrendous repercussions for the Kremlin's foreign policy. It would shatter the carefully cultivated détente Russia has been building with Western Europe. It would sunder the Communist bloc, nearly all of whose members have embraced "polycentrism" as the correct philosophy for relations between Communist countries and Russia. It would make impossible the conference of Communist parties that Russia hopes to convene this year. Nor would it be a military Cakewalk. Since Russian troops left...