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...Presidential Campaign Activities has never regained the earlier momentum of its investigation into the Watergate mess and other scandals. Last week, on the day that it had been scheduled to begin examining publicly one of several pieces of important unfinished business, the seven-member committee suddenly voted to suspend its hearings indefinitely-until January at the earliest. The decision helped underscore the factionalism and frustration that has lately shaken the committee's once solid and purposeful ranks...
...solution the Activists developed to counter fascism was to root out the danger before it has a chance to bloom. Suspend political democracy, deny the opposition freedom of speech or assembly, build socialism with a powerful and determined dictatorship of the lower orders. Destroy the right before it has a chance to move against the revolution...
Daredevil Assaults. This year the Administration's budget cutters have decided to suspend the most dramatic aspect of Stormfury's work: the efforts to reduce the devastating power of hurricanes by "seeding" them with silver iodide crystals, spread by planes flying directly into the storm. Such daredevil aerial assaults, which in at least one case−1969's Hurricane Debbie−apparently succeeded in temporarily reducing wind velocities by as much as 30%, will not be resumed before the summer of 1976. Then Stormfury's pilots will try their seeding skills on typhoons, the Pacific version...
...Secretary is astonished to watch the President develop into a cryptofascist who plans to undermine the legislative arm of the Government and suspend elections−"just this once." The Secretary joins the Vice President (Willard Waterman), the President's spiritual counsel−the Rev. Jimmy Williams (Joseph Sirola)−and other advisers in a plot to remove the Chief Executive by literally blasting him out of office...
...later, 3500 students voted--by a margin of more than two to one--to suspend the strike in view of an announcement that the Corporation would follow the Faculty's guidelines in upcoming ROTC negotiations. The Corporation's statement touched on virtually all the strike's demands, and in regard to ROTC the Corporation said, it will "continue these negotiations [with the Defense Department] adopting the principle that ROTC should become an extracurricular activity and as such should enjoy no special facilities or privileges not ordinarily available to other extracurricular activities...