Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Democratic City committee of Cambridge said yesterday they expect a tight battle between reform and conservative elements in today's Committee election of candidates for the city Election Commission...
...Democrats' eleven ward committees will choose from a slate consisting of conservative incumbent Francis R. Burns and four reform challengers. City Manager James L. Sullivan will then appoint one of the three to the Election Commission...
...proposed "limited modifications" in Spain's 18-year-old constitution was the creation of a second chamber of the Cortes, Spain's Parliament. This would be a popularly elected lower house that would have equal power with a largely appointed upper chamber. Arias also promised to reform the electoral law that now allows only Franco's National Movement to exist as a political party. Arias carefully avoided using the word party, but most observers interpreted his speech to mean that moderate parties and possibly even a socialist coalition would eventually be permitted. There would, however...
...government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single word about free labor unions or any alteration in the government-controlled syndicates that have long made up an important part of Franco's "corporate" state...
...newly integrated school is beaten up by blacks. Busing proponents, however, might note that the victim probably provoked the assault by mistakenly calling one of his black assailants a honky. ("I got mixed up. I'm new at this," he explained.) Champions of drug-law reform might be cheered that Trudeau mentions hallucinogens casually and frequently in the strip. But hard-liners can recall a sermonette by Zonker Harris after he was busted for possession: "It may or may not be wrong, but it sure is against...