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...Humphrey country, some of Wisconsin's seasoned politicos began to sense a building Kennedy momentum across the state. That was the reading even in ruggedly impartial high places in the State House at Madison. "On the basis of what I've been hearing from state senators and assemblymen lately," said one of Wisconsin's most knowledgeable officials, "it would not surprise me-in an election held today-if Jack Kennedy swept the state. I don't mean, just the popular vote and six or seven districts. I mean all ten districts. This may not be true...
...fields we are deteriorating and deteriorating continuously," complained Indonesia's President Sukarno to his Constituent Assembly. For three years the wrangling assemblymen had been trying to draw up a new constitution for the rebellion-plagued nation of 87 million. Now Sukarno urged them to vote in his old constitution of 1945, embodying the famed "guided democracy" that would give Sukarno virtually dictatorial power. "God willing," he cried, "let us carry out the socialist reconstruction of Indonesia and hurl liberalism and capitalism as far away as possible...
...firm promises of future employment if they voted in Sukarno's constitution. Djuanda was at first evasive, finally lost his temper and shouted that "unpredictable things may happen"-a thinly disguised threat of a military takeover if the assembly did not get a move on. Angrily, the assemblymen three times refused to pass Sukarno's plan, and then voted to adjourn...
Down the River? The toast was premature. Although the Senate seemed to be in hand, 29 assemblymen-nearly a third of the G.O.P. majority-announced (what with elections due next year) that they were still unwilling to support Rockefeller without additional cuts...
Though the four members of the Mali Federation will retain control of their own economies, they will have a common language (French), flag (red, black and gold), federal government (two ministers from each state plus a Parliament of 48 assemblymen), and will remain in De Gaulle's new French Community...