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...lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College in Massachusetts. Said Monsignor George G. Higgins at Providence College commencement ceremonies: "You [Walesa] are an electrician whose light cannot be obscured by the darkness of despotism. You are a free man whose spirit cannot be confined...
...legislators to make a rules change that would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths plurality to approve a constitutional amendment. Fasting and civil disobedience have become lobbying tactics. Last week 20 ardent ERA supporters chained themselves to the brass railing outside the senate chambers in Springfield, Ill. Said Mary Whitmore of Bellevue, Wash.: "These chains dramatize the economic slavery...
Anyone closely observing the state Democratic Convention in Springfield three weeks ago would understand why Harvard appointed Jim King. The platform elevated in front of the civic center arena held a limited number of seats, mostly reserved for candidates and their entourage and for big-wigs in the party. But one seat was reserved for King, who--at the request of state party chairman Chester G. Atkins--was floor manager for the weekend. King's official duties for the weekend involved mostly designing the physical layout and taking care of minor crises, such as credentials shortages...
MOST OBSERVERS at Springfield focused their attention on the event's impact on the party. Earlier this decade, officials cancelled the convention because of the negative effects many said it had on party unity. Two years ago, however, party officials decided that party loyalty had crumbled even further, and concluded that a convention might be just the thing to restore some order to one of the most inclusive political organizations in the country...
...grand gathering at the Springfield Civic Center was designed to bolster the supposedly disintegrating state Democratic organization. Determining whether it has succeeded will have to wait until next November, when it will become clear whether the party can unify behind the winner of what promises to be a rather bloody primary. In the short term at least, it gave the politicians a chance to politic, the analysts a chance to analyze. Most of all, the convention provided an interesting, behind-the-scenes look at the differences--ideological and personal--in the party...