Word: abolisher
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...party whips. Last week was such an occasion, and the question was one that weighed heavily on many a member's conscience: capital punishment. By a vote of 293 to 262 (four dozen Tories rejecting the stand of Anthony Eden's Cabinet), the House voted to abolish the death penalty for murder...
...made a moving confession of error to the House; the Evans case did more than anything else to agitate debate. Sir Ernest Cowers, during the four years his royal commission studied the problem, himself underwent a complete about-face from his original conviction that those who wanted to abolish the death penalty were merely "people whose hearts were bigger than their heads...
...have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...
...hope that the government itself will convoke them. I am not so naive as to believe that it will be easy to do. In any case, the Assembly must announce its intentions very quickly. If not, it will collapse." Presumably, the Etats Généraux would then abolish the National Assembly and rule in its stead-though Poujade is characteristically vague about details...
...each other to keep various applicants out, evoked little sympathy. Since the veto-less Assembly has now assumed authority over all important UN decisions except membership, and since the U.S. has repudiated its stand against new members, Washington has little to lose by asking the Security Council to abolish the veto completely. If this proves impossible, Ambassador Lodge could propose that the veto be abolished on all membership matters. If the United States cannot maintain its international position before a world forum, it might as well convert the UN buildings into a hotel for American Legion conventions...