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President Johnson immediately gave the Mills bill his blessing, called it "a tremendous step forward for our senior citizens." Republicans planned a last-ditch fight to amend the measure by extending its voluntary provisions to hospitalization and establishing an income ceiling on participants. But they had little hope, and Wilbur Mills' bill seemed virtually certain to be the final blueprint for the medicare law, opening the way to a vast new Government role in health...
...land reform to distribute unused or badly administered estates to 100,000 landless peasants, tax reform to raise rates on middle and high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country's copper industry; the government would acquire 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two new U.S. ventures in return...
...bill would amend present Massachusetts criminal statutes which prohibit the prescription or sale of contraceptive devices by physicians or pharmacists. Under the statutes, which were enacted between 1840 and 1880, a doctor is also Forbidden to advise a patient on birth-control methods...
...serious effort to amend the Constitution should provide the occasion for a great national debate...
...capacity as a "tribune of the people," Skolnik will attend executive committee meetings but may not vote. He may, at his own discretion or at the request of one-fourth of the members, call general membership meetings to amend the constitution...