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That feeling helped the birth in 1977 of the League for the Advancement of States' Equal Rights (LASER), the main force behind what is known as the Sagebrush Rebellion. Led mostly by local government officials, state lawmakers and ranchers, the Sagebrush movement is attempting to wrest control of as much as 400 million acres of the land now owned by the Federal Government. Several states, including Utah, Arizona and Wyoming, have passed resolutions laying claim to their federal land, and Nevada is planning to sue the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to win the rights...
...moderate parliamentary leadership and an increasingly radical rank and file. Last week's conference proved no exception. Headed by Tony Benn, 55, a former viscount who renounced his title in 1963 in order to remain in the House of Commons, the left arrived in Blackpool determined to wrest control of the party from its leaders. In particular, the militants aimed at three longtime objectives: 1) the right to draft the party's policy manifesto, which is far more binding than a U.S. party platform; 2) closer control over M.P.s by their "constituency parties," or local committees...
Parish will be joined up front by Kevin McHale, a towering rookie and Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, the wispy veteran who led the league in both field goal percentage and annoying ability to wrest rebounds from much heavier...
...very much in control of the Detroit convention?of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said he: "What's the use? The numbers aren...
...saga grows all the time. Last year Illinois Corrections Director Gayle Franzen had to mount a shakedown like a military maneuver to wrest control of Stateville Correctional Center from the inmate gangs who utterly ran the place. Says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz: "One of the major issues on the prison-reform agenda is how to get the prisons back in the hands of the correction people. Too many prisons are in the hands of inmates." Far too many of the abominations associated with prisons turn out to be not flukes but widespread conditions...