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...Society's "common goal," its literature says, is "Less government, more responsibility, and--with God's help--a better world." It even wants to abolish the graduated income tax--to cut down on this intrusion of government on the individual, among other reasons. But the elderly, red-haired receptionist in the John Birch Society's national headquarters in Belmont spends her working day filling out requisitions, resupply forms, and sales slips, because the John Birch Society is a business...
...through March of 1939, the Basques suffered 336, 830 casualties--including dead, wounded, missing, and forcibly exiled. Of these casualties, 21,780 men, women and children had been executed. When the rebel forces (including Italian and German Fascist mercenary troops) occupied Bilbao, General Franco's first decree was to abolish the independence of the Basque country. Over thirty-thousand Basques-men and women-were imprisoned without due process, and more than two-hundred thousand Basques were forced into exile. Arbitrarily, by decree, the use of the Basque language was prohibited. On March 17, 1937, Franco, again by decree, prohibited...
Frelimo is a self-proclaimed Marxist party, and Machel's plans for Mozambique are similar to the policies followed by Tanzania's socialist president Julius Nyerere. The day before he took office, Machel announced to a cheering crowd that the new government's first actions would be to abolish rent, to take over all private medical and legal services, and to nationalize all private and missionary schools. Machel's first press release after independence called for a development strategy that relies on the party core to organize the rural population into "revolutionary societies--communal villages...where that population will have...
Revenues are growing but not as fast as costs. Officials have eliminated some services, such as trimming residents' trees, and postponed purchases of fire-fighting and recreational equipment. They also have cut 213 jobs through attrition this year, plan to abolish as many in 1976, and have held pay increases to 5%. Disgruntled policemen responded by hiring the Teamsters for $200,000 to represent them in contract negotiations starting next spring. Rather than increase property taxes next year, city officials are considering imposing an income...
When Jerry Ford, who was tempered by 25 years on the Hill, is out on the stump, his rhetoric sometimes suggests that he would abolish the entire Government. As head of that Government, he must know, after a year's on-the-job training, that some of his campaign lines are pure baloney. But he cannot cure the congressional hangover. Some of Ford's vetoes, often delivered with simplistic and negative explanations, represent a denial of the legitimate, if costly advances our society has made in the past years. On the other hand, many of the bills that...