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Double Trouble. Whatever they were, the consulting paradise ended, at least temporarily, when the Negro-dominated Progressive Liberal Party won control of the Bahamian House of Assembly last January. As one of his first acts, Negro Premier Lynden Pindling asked Queen Elizabeth to appoint a royal commission to delve into his campaign charge that government leaders had accepted questionable fees and that U.S. crime-syndicate members were taking over the casinos. Soon after, Pindling announced that three fugitive Americans, wanted on tax evasion and bookmaking indictments, who were forced out as managers of one of Groves's Grand Bahama...
...President is expected to appoint a majority of Negroes to the council, and possibly a Negro chief executive. Thus, for the first time since Reconstruction, Washington will have a local government that represents its population pattern if not-directly-its people...
...Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...
...presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more responsibility as Vice President than the new constitution calls for. Then, too, there is 1971 ahead-when Ky will still...
...most experienced in making the transition back and forth from the government over a period of time because by their professional training they have a haven which they can return to, and one which relates closely to politics and government. This makes it tempting for the Institute to appoint lawyers and teachers as Fellows, but I would argue the opposite -- that the emphasis on selecting people for this experience should be placed on those who do not already have that built-in opportunity to move with relative quickness and ease to an outside spot. Those people who were...