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...Student voters supported the referendum calling for an end to licensing of nuclear power plants by a margin of more than...
This year was different, though, in one respect--the emergence of the student vote. College students have been eligible to vote in the past three Cambridge elections, a privilege only a few have ever exercised. But students registering for classes this fall found they could also register to vote in Cambridge--even if they hadn't paid their term bills. Many went ahead and registered. After all, "students will sign anything. They just won't take the time to vote," as conservative councilor Walter Sullivan once pointed...
...army officers' motives for joining Kim's coup plan stemmed from Park's harsh measures against rising political opposition and student protests. This led the generals to conclude that he was losing touch with reality and was no longer able to govern effectively. Moreover, both the army brass and the KCIA leaders shared a revulsion against the growing personal influence of Cha, Park's arrogant, all-purpose adviser as well as his chief security officer. Kim had a personal grudge against Cha because he had repeatedly criticized the KCIA'S failures to prevent or even...
Predictably enough, Kennedy's presidential bid has also revived press stories about Chappaquiddick. his 1951 expulsion from Harvard for cheating and anything else that might illumine his character. Last week New York Times Columnist William Safire dredged up a 1958 reckless driving conviction: as a law student at the University of Virginia, Kennedy tried to elude a pursuing police officer, Safire reported, then was found hiding in the front seat of his car. Safire concluded: "When in big trouble, Ted Kennedy's repeated history has been to run, to hide, to get caught and to get away with...
...lives, teaches and, by way of extension of his social theories, sponsors an institute called the Free International University, supporting it with the large income from his work. He is seen by the right as a demented blend of gangster and clown, and by some of the less militant student left as a messiah...