Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor student take-over at the conservative Santa Barbara University of California campus October 10 had prompted a secret threat by Ronald Reagan to settle the dispute by bringing in the National Guard if the Administration did not remove the demonstrators within a short time. By nightfall the Santa Barbara administrators had agreed to the small militant band's requests. The students left the administration building shaking their heads in disbelief at the administration's acquiescence...
Through unconfirmed, it is reported that Reagan also threatened to use the National Guard in dealing with the Berkeley incident. The Governor's threat becomes particularly ominous in the context of the California Senatorial battle now in its final stages. NEWS ANALYSIS...
...standard spiel-just bored. Perhaps it is because the racial and ethnic abrasions that Wallace feeds on elsewhere are less important in the more fluid and open society of the West. The people who live there have no difficulty voting for conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, or voting against open-housing measures. But many seem to find it difficult to accept Wallace's radicalism, with its unabashed divisions between "them" and "us." At any rate, Wallace, the master of noise and turmoil, was unnerved by the unaccustomed silence. "It's real difficult for me to speak...
...California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., which provides free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything from predatory salesmen who extract $500 in time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz sees them, go far beyond the courtroom. "If you act in groups," he says of CR.L.A.'s clients...
...result of Rafferty's poor showing has been to bring Governor Reagan plunging in to his rescue. It is "absolutely imperative," said Reagan, "that Max Rafferty be the next United States Senator." Reagan deputized his two top aides to spur Rafferty's flagging campaign, and he has sent out an emergency appeal for financial help to his "kitchen cabinet" of rich California businessmen...