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...biggest banks has made it easier for small businessmen and farmers to get loans. "Nobody can say the situation is ideal," she says, "but we are emerging from a very dark period." In pursuing her own brand of moderate socialism, she will seek a constitutional amendment to abolish the maharajahs' privy purses; the Supreme Court last month struck down a presidential decree depriving the princes of this traditional privilege, which costs the treasury $6,000,000 a year...
...Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's major political goals has been to abolish the special privileges long accorded to India's 278 maharajahs and rajahs. Last September, after Parliament failed to approve a bill that would amend the constitution and reduce their highnesses to just plain misters, she ordered the President of India, V.V. Giri, to issue a decree achieving the same goal...
...Sabu was just naturally upset." The Tucson Zoological Commission was not so understanding. Three weeks ago, the commission voted to have Sabu executed. Weese was outraged. So were thousands of other Tucson residents. Nearly 7,000 wrote letters pleading for clemency. Last week the city council voted unanimously to abolish the commission, thereby commuting Sabu's sentence to life...
...eight are a blending of the guerrilla tactics of Che Guevara and the passionate concern for human life of Jesus Christ. They share the conviction that militant action is necessary since passive demonstration has not produced an end to the war in Asia or a real effort to abolish the institution of racism that forms one side of the American triangle with economic exploitation and male chauvinism...
...traditional national tunics and wear their hair long. Student leaders, even if they speak good English or French, prefer talking to foreigners in Vietnamese- correcting their translators when necessary. Even the high school students have joined in the fracas. As early as August, they announced a campaign to "abolish corrupted culture" (i.e., American influence) by "boycotting every kind of sex-appeal magazines poisoning the soul of Vietnamese youth," and threatening to "burn all the sex magazines in the bookshops all over the streets of Saigon...