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Similarly, on Capitol Hill last week, Democratic and Republican leaders alike tried to quell rank-and-file congressional demands that Nixon step down and save the nation the trauma of impeachment and trial. Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia warned that a forced resignation would polarize the nation. "A significant portion of our citizens would feel that the President had been driven from office by his political enemies," he said. "The question of guilt or innocence would never be fully resolved." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield declared that "resignation is not the answer." House Speaker Carl Albert...
...breezing along on the mound with a two-hitter, showing no signs of letting up. He finally gave up a run in the bottom of the sixth on Dave St. Pierre's double, after walks to Leigh Hogan and Mackey, but retired Friar and captain Ric LaCivita to quell the uprising...
...collaborated on its moderate anti-ROTC statement, put it recently. For many such discontented students, the unexpectedness and brutality of the Bust appeared to confirm radical contentions: students really were powerless. Real power remained in the hands of a corporate state which would use whatever force it needed to quell student demonstrations just as it used whatever force it needed in Indochina. And the supposedly liberal university's respect for tolerance and orderly procedure was just a facade to be cast aside when its administrators felt threatened. "Nobody believed that it would happen," Epstein said of the Bust...
...South Africa--has filed a resolution asking Gulf Oil to publish information on its operations in Angola. This is the issue that led to President Bok's establishment of the ACSR in 1972. Angola is a colony of the Portuguese government where Portugal consistently uses military force to quell black nationalists' movements for independence. Gulf operates in Angola with the approval of the Portuguese government and is in fact a major supplier of oil to Portugal--so critics charge that Gulf is contributing to the Portuguese suppression of the Angolan people...
...reading and math scores for San Francisco students have been dropping steadily; they are now well below national norms. School board meetings are repeatedly disrupted by noisy, contentious community factions attacking each other, the board and Board President Eugene S. Hopp. At a recent meeting, police had to quell a minor riot that erupted when spectators attacked 13 uniformed American Nazi Party members, who were present to protest school integration plans. The board has already missed an HEW-imposed January deadline for approving an integration plan for secondary schools...