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...Emergency. Ike's letter was an answer to a letter from McDonald, who was so anxious to have the Administration take a hand in negotiations that he asked the President to appoint a fact-finding board to look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked...
...chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around to accepting self-government. Even today the emirs can appoint kadis (Moslem judges) with complete authority to fine, jail...
...rebuttal to Murphy came from Butler himself, who in his introduction said that it was "no crime for a Governor to appoint a Republican," and expressed hope that local Democrats would settle their differences before the 1960 campaign. Butler admitted that he had more than once voted for a Republican candidate "in the belief that the particular man was a better candidate...
...strong Catholic and I come from a strong Catholic family," responded Kennedy. "But I regret the fact that some people get the idea that the Catholic Church favors a church-state tie." Then, taking up a questionnaire formally delivered to him beforehand, he repeated again that he would not appoint an envoy to the Vatican. One bishop taxed him with the persecution of Protestants in Catholic Spain. "I deplore a loss of liberty under any circumstances," answered Kennedy. By now not sure what might lie in the bishops' minds, he felt it necessary to add, "I am opposed...
...last week the New York city council, in a crackpot mood, voted 23-1 to appoint a committee to study secession once again, this time not from the grand old Union but from New York State. Reason: Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republican-run state legislature were, in the words of Brooklyn Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said...