Word: thompson
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...BOARD of Cambridge's Civic Association (CCA)--the local liberals--were embroiled last month in a nasty fight over whether to endorse Alvin Thompson, a Black candidate for city council. The CCA are well-intentioned, hard-working people, and, the truth be told, think highly of themselves. So there was some displeasure when an elderly Black man stood up to say his piece--an attack on the group and its upper-class constituency for prejudice and racism. It was a bitter speech, full of recriminations for past wrongs, and it made a lot of people, including many who opposed...
During an often heated debate with W. Scott Thompson, from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. Mendelsohn, an outspoken critic of arms proliferation, said "we have adopted a motto that bigger is better and even bigger is even better, but who's been served--certainly not our national security...
...Thompson, who has written several books on national defense and has served as an advisor to the U.S. Navy, said he was "every bit as committed to control of the arms race as anybody else," but he added that the United States cannot negotiate with the Soviet Union until the two countries have a "parity" of military forces...
...enthusiastic partisan crowd of 2,000 that gathered last week at a fund-raising banquet in Chicago for Republican Governor James R. Thompson, and the guest speaker took full advantage of the forum to lash out at Democratic critics of his tax-cut bill. "Our proposal is not a 'rich man's windfall,' as some have falsely charged," said President Ronald Reagan to applause. "It is fair, it is equitable, and it is compassionate...
...last week they were enough to convince a Georgia magistrate that Wayne Bertram Williams, 23, should face a grand jury for possible indictment in the murder of Nathaniel Cater, 27, the most recent of the 28 young blacks found slain in Atlanta. Williams showed no emotion as Magistrate Albert Thompson read the decision upholding the arrest. Only later, as he was transferred back to his 6-ft. by 12-ft. isolation cell in Fulton County Jail, did the suspect comment: "This is ridiculous...