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Dirksen would amend this section so that it would not empower federal courts to order the transportation of pupils to correct a racial imbalance-as in "bussing...
...Smoke & Beef. With the exception of a successful amendment by Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, to limit the program to two years, all attempts at weakening the bill were defeated. Delaware Republican John J. Williams introduced an amend ment that could end subsidies on to bacco, which for 30 years has received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful...
...state legislature should repeal or amend the legislation that called for the underpasses. Any bill considered at Thursday's public hearing would delay work on them (and they will all probably be combined into one measure by the metropolitan affairs committee). What matters is that the whole idea of the underpasses be reconsidered. If it is, the MDC may some day be as thankful as the people of Cambridge...
More than 30 people spoke in favor of three bills that would repeal or amend the 1962 act directing the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses. Only three spoke against the bills...
However, an end of the absolute minority veto is only the first step towards a workable government. The door must be opened for further advances. Cyprus has no way amend its constitution. It needs a method of amendment that will enable the Turks to protect their present status, and allow changes now acceptable to both parties. The larger reforms can occur when Greco-Turkish relations reach happier times...