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...young Americans describing to Russian audiences their desertion from the aircraft carrier Intrepid as a protest against the Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
...size of families-a concept that most nations have found impossible to accept. In a more Orwellian guise, writes Davis, such control might include pressure through limits on availability of housing, manipulation of inflation to force mothers to work, increased city congestion by the deliberate neglect of transit systems, and increased personal insecurity through rigged unemployment...
...spend $185 billion over a ten year period in housing, education, guaranteed annual income, expanded medical care and social insurance, and most important, in creation of jobs to eliminate unemployment, jobs that will engage the poor in rebuilding their own cities and ghettos, in construction of homes, schools, mass transit, and hospitals, in useful services such as hospital and teachers' aides...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and the City still cannot agree on the MBTA's plans for its new Harvard Square station...
Robert E. Rudolph, Cambridge Director of Traffic and Parking, told the City Council last night that he would end the rotary pattern around Cambridge Common as soon as the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority completed some wiring changes in the area. He declined to predict how long that would take council then voted to invite an MBTA representative to next Monday's meeting to set the date...