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...political persecution. This in part accounts for the wider base of the Free Angela Davis movement. Still, Angela Davis is a member of the Communist Party USA. She openly denounces the "corporate pigs" and capitalist system that allows them to exploit her brothers and sisters. In 1970, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents sought to fire her from her teaching post at UCLA and they eventually did not renew her contract because she is a member of the party. Public opinion polls in California at the time indicated that a majority of citizens felt the state universities...
Largely because he has refused to fit someone else's predetermined mold, Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr., a Democrat who sometimes sounds like a Republican, is the favorite to win the Nov. 5 election and succeed Ronald Reagan as Governor of California. In any circumstances, Brown would be a strikingly unusual candidate, points out TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. A tense and introverted intellectual, Brown spent four years in a Jesuit seminary ("It concentrates your thinking," he says with a half-smile) and cracks jokes in Latin for his press entourage. He has been a follower of Eugene McCarthy...
...This was the night before a football game, and the atmosphere was something like a cross between ancient fertility rites and classical Bacchanalia. After O'Brien's speech several thousand wine-besotted "Fighting Irishmen" stormed off in vain pursuit of fisticuffs reminiscent of the Fenian invasion of Canada. Ronald Reagan plays the part of the dying George "Gipper" Gipp wonderfully...
...image is often better than no image at all. It is easy to see Richard Nixon--gray at the temples, limping slightly--knocking off some unknown Republican in a primary and then--once more a winner, something of a "statesman" (in bearing and experience), above all an oddity (like Ronald Reagan and George Murphy)--beating his Democratic opponent...
Among other things, they voted to slash retiring Republican Governor Ronald Reagan's pension from $32,800 to less than...