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...sanction such reforms and indeed did not understand the need for them. Students demonstrated for educational reforms at universities in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Santiago, Valencia and Seville and doggedly battled police who sought to stop them. Liberal priests and moderate bishops changed the Roman Catholic Church from a staunch supporter of the regime to an independent and often critical force for change. Increasingly rebellious workers defied the government-run syndicates that controlled labor and attempted to set up their own unions. Basque extremists, seeking political, linguistic and cultural freedom for their section of northern Spain, carried on an unremitting campaign...
Reisman, a staunch supporter of the 1-1-2 proposal for undergraduate housing, stated in his letter that the University should "go ahead with the 1-1-2 plan" even over the intense opposition of this "female or female-influenced" minority...
There are problems with this option. As the report notes, this plan would "unify the freshmen at the expense of four-year Houses"--precisely what staunch supporters of Quad life want to avoid. In addition, the report continues, "it would be necessary to assign a larger number of sophomores to the Quad," a situation that that could work against the University's intention of making housing satisfactory to students...
...Asia has greatly changed. The most important differences, of course, are the fall of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and the virtually complete withdrawal of the American presence from Indochina. Much of last spring's panic in non-Communist Asia has now disappeared. Nonetheless, once staunch American allies like the Philippines and Thailand are still trying to readjust to a world no longer dominated...
Senator William Proxmire, a staunch opponent of the confirmation of Carlo Hills, 41, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is no sexist. He also gave Carla's husband, Roderick Hills, 44, a grilling. During Senate hearings to consider the appointment of Hills as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Proxmire recalled that once while jogging to Capitol Hill he had encountered a former SEC chairman riding to work in a limousine. Would Hills require a limousine? "I shall not," he replied, but added, "nor shall I jog." Hills told the Senators he would share his wife...