Word: assem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Euphonious Combination. As if to emphasize that the figurehead Vice President would be no more than a figurehead President, the National Assem bly did not even permit Thang to choose his second-in-command. Ignoring the constitution, which authorizes a President to name his Vice President, the Assembly made the decision for him, electing Nguyen Luong Bang, about 65, a member of the party Central Committee and North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow from 1952 to 1957. Whatever other assets the new Vice President brings to his job, his election gives North Viet Nam the world...
...vanishing Jew' is a myth," agreed Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assem bly. Speaking at the Catskills' Concord Hotel to the annual convention of Conservative rabbis, Kelman argued that while in prewar Europe Jewish partners in a mixed marriage customarily abandoned their faith, the opposite is true in the U.S. now. Today, he declared, "a large number of non-Jewish part ners are willing and eager to convert to Judaism...
...This is a civilized meeting," reminded the general. "Let's keep it that way." "I hereby resign as governor," stormed Lacerda. "Tell that to the state assem bly," suggested the general. Lacerda stalked from the meeting, but a few days later issued a statement: "General Costa e Silva is a highly qualified man, just the kind that Brazil needs during such a difficult moment." Lacerda then announced that he was off to Europe or the U.S. for a two-month vacation...