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...Herald Flannery, deputy director of the Center, said that he was pessimistic about the future of the Center and other law reform offices. "It's a common understanding that the administration would like to abolish the law reform centers," he said. "And I expect the administration's bill won't include a law reform component...
...thus with a tone of reconciliation, clearly influenced by the Gaullists' decline in the March elections, that Pompidou addressed the new National Assembly last week. Repeating a Gaullist promise of "bold reform," he conceded that France's recent prosperity "does not abolish, sometimes even accentuates, shocking inequalities...
...Christopher also said that the Community will not make reverse preferences a condition of granting trade concessions to any country. In other words, the Common Market will lower or abolish tariffs against goods from certain friendly countries as it sees fit, without demanding that they grant the same breaks to Common Market goods. "Any Mediterranean country, any present associate [a nation that has an agreement with the Common Market], any new country will be free to use its own tariff sovereignty...
President Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign pledge to abolish the Congressional Slave Act, euphemistically called Selective Service, has turned out to be just as big a phony as was his promise to end the Vietnam War, which he extended instead to all of Indochina. By insisting upon the retention of the entire fabric of the old Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium...
...point proposal issued by the "Trail of Broken Treaties" calls for the U.S. to honor its treaty commitments and to abolish the BIA, substituting an alternate agency that would revitalize Indian-U.S. relations...