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...years the more moderate citizens of Berkeley, Calif., urged the town's sizable radical element to drop the politics of confrontation and try to work within the system. With a well-organized campaign, the radicals did just that. By the scant margin of 56 votes, Berkeley last week elected its first black mayor: Warren Widener, 33, a suave former city council member and protégé of radical Black Congressman Ronald Dellums. The insurgents also gained three of four available seats on the city council, bringing it to an even 4-4 split between leftists and moderates...
...remarkable advances in molecular biology during the past two decades have given man an understanding of the basic processes that shape his life and have placed within the realm of possibility medical achievements undreamed of a scant few years ago. As more and more of the once-mysterious life forces within the cell are defined in the logical language of chemistry, the way is being opened not only for permanent cures of genetic diseases but also for drastic changes in man's genetic makeup. The acquisition of the power to eliminate genetic imperfections and engineer entirely new characteristics for humans...
Yamashita was executed?perhaps for the sake of a good principle (command responsibility) but surely with scant regard for the evidence. Is his fate, as many now suggest, a precedent for prosecuting American
TIME'S survey, carried out with the help of Public Opinion Research of Israel Ltd., indicates that there is scant public pressure on the coalition government of Premier Golda Meir to soften any policy-or, for that matter, to harden it. Of the Jewish Israelis questioned, 85% feel that the government is doing all it should to negotiate a peace treaty. They also give stunning support to the government position that the occupied territories of East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Sharm el Sheikh should be retained by Israel in any settlement (see map). Only 7% of the Israelis...
...stock options. As a concession to labor, Nixon rescinded his mid-February suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that local "prevailing wages" be paid on all federally aided construction. The suspension enraged the nation's 3,500,000 hardhats, while contractors complained that it would have scant effect on this year's wage contracts...