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...More than any prior generation, they are children of permissive parents, and the Spock marks are showing. Today's young are used to having their complaints acted on instantly. "They are the babies who were picked up," notes Harvard's David Riesman. They have less direction than previous generations, are challenged by their parents to think for themselves. For all the rather exaggerated talk of the generation gap, American student activists tend not so much to defy their parents as to emulate them. And their parents are inclined to approve of what they are doing...
With only 129 seats in the 259-seat House of Commons, Trudeau's Liberals are two votes short of a majority and therefore - like Canada's two previous governments since 1962 - dependent upon minority party support to get legislation passed. But the latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 42% of the vote, their highest rating in 27 months, compared with 34% for the opposition Tories. Besides, though he will be with out a Parliament, Trudeau will continue as a highly visible Prime Minister until the elections...
Both teams broke the previous meet record of 16:39.4 set by Villanova...
Sierra Leone, which had two army coups in quick succession a little more than a year ago, underwent another one of a somewhat different order last week. Officers had led the previous coups, but this time it was soldiers from the 1,600-man army who mutinied against their superiors and decided to take their turn at governing the country. Dissatisfied over low pay and poor living conditions, troops led by sergeants rose first in the town of Darn and then the capital of Freetown. At least twelve people were killed as a contingent of 300 men seized and threw...
Both students and administrators said that yesterday's meeting was successful. "It was beneficial to all of us," Gardiner said, "and it was friendly and worthwhile." Stewart W. Kemp '69, one of the five students at the meeting, said that the administrators were "very cooperative," and that the previous conflict "was just a breakdown in communication...