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...also opened promising negotiations with Vietnamese sects that had withdrawn sup port from Diem but were not ready to rally to the new regime. But while still clearly favored by the population, the new regime seemed oddly reluctant to assume political leadership. One of its few decisions: to abolish the siesta that has traditionally closed government offices for 21 hours each afternoon. Despite the mournful yawns of civil servants, the new decree enables peasants and rural officials to complete their business in the capital earlier and return home safely before dusk, when the Viet Cong start harassing traffic...
...world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life... In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hours of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility; I welcome...
...covers the question of whether the church as a whole is governed by the Pope and Curia alone, or whether the college of bishops shares in this authority, and if so to what extent. Council progressives believed, as one American theologian put it, that "this council was called to abolish papolatry." But to council conservatives, collegiality means a sharp loss of power. Archbishop Dino Staffa, an official of the Roman Curia, contended that "supreme power over the entire flock of the faithful was entrusted to Peter and Peter alone." The implication is that such power was also entrusted...
...ABOLISH ELECTORAL VOTES ALTOGETHER. Under a proposal by New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, among others, the President would be directly elected by the overall national popular vote. Most Democrats oppose this plan, and many conservatives object that by depriving the states of all significance in presidential elections, the Keating plan would weaken the already battered federal system...
Hounded by Hysteria. Palmer rose in politics as a progressive Democrat from Pennsylvania. Elected to Congress in 1908, he bravely bucked his state's powerful industrialists to join the fight for lower tariffs. He was friendly to labor and welfare legislation; his bill to abolish child labor was hailed as the "most momentous measure of the Progressive Era." When he was beaten in a try for the Senate, President Wilson consoled him with the wartime post of alien property custodian and in 1919 named him Attorney General...