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...statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though the nervousness and unrest remained...
...condition" in which nonstudent agitators, in "one of the most unusual town-gown antagonisms in history," had made the campus a target for protest. He drew a burst of applause when he said, "There are hundreds of faculty members and thousands of students who are heartily sick of the unrest, turbulence and the tenuous control we have over our community and who yearn for the stability essential for a climate of productive learning." Vowing that he would enforce all campus rules "as long as I am in this position," Heyns-in a clear reference to the rising...
...unrest posed new problems for the university. Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California assembly, said that the legislature's Joint Committee on Higher Education will probe Berkeley's problems. Governor-elect Ronald Reagan repeated his campaign call for a Berkeley investigation, said the new disorder was caused by "middleaged delinquents." As Governor he will have few official powers over the university beyond sitting on its board of regents, although he can influence its budget. His guideline will be that "no one is compelled to attend the university. Those who do attend should accept and obey the prescribed rules...
...Iowa, only two other Democratic freshmen survived?Andrew Jacobs and Lee Hamilton in Indiana?largely because of skillful gerrymandering by the Democratic legislature. However, the G.O.P. unexpectedly unseated a veteran Hoosier House fixture, eight-termer Winfield K. Denton, who lost to Management Consultant Roger H. Zion, 45. Reflecting farmer unrest, the G.O.P. captured, by one estimate, 57% of the rural vote v. 49.7% in the Goldwater debacle. Of 19 Democrats newly elected in 1964 throughout the region, 16 were retired. In all, Republicans picked up a net gain of 22 House seats in the Midwest?almost half their national gain...
...does not feel that the power of casting a vote for either Mr. ohnson or Mr. Nixon will be a protest commensurate with the requirements of conscience, one should certainly wait for the Nuremberg trials that will follow the present period of unrest. There, by orderly procedure of law, the matter of responsibility for the fine-deaths of farmers will undoubtedly be considered and reconsidered by reasonable, courteous, duly designated judges. At that time and at that time only will it be appropriate to cast aspersons on the activities of a head of state and his closest lieutenants...