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While just about everybody agrees that South Korea Assemblymen are often incompetent and sometimes corrupt. Rhee's anger also stems from the occasional spark of independence that the Assembly shows. Recently Rhee demanded constitutional amendments to give the voters the right to recall Assemblymen by petition and the President the authority to dissolve the Assembly by decree. Though members of Rhee's own Liberal Party fill 96 of the Assembly's 179* seats, the Assembly balked at such drastic pruning of its powers...
...likeness of an Occidental dignitary was placed. It was the celebrated nude calendar photograph (3 ft. by 2 ft.) of a recent visitor to Japan, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Explained Assembly President Suematsu, whose idea it was to round out his gallery: "The picture should serve to rejuvenate our municipal assemblymen...
Last Christmas Day, Uncle Chen said to a meeting of Assemblymen: "My creed is the common good instead of personal self-interest, fellowship and cooperation instead of ill-will and intrigue, mutual trust instead of mutual suspicion, and encouragement for one another instead of blame...
...chamber still decked in mourning, 120 West Berlin assemblymen met one day last week to elect a successor to the late great Ernst Reuter, mayor of West Berlin. Waiting in the anteroom behind a brace of glowing cigars were two rival candidates: Deputy Mayor Walther Schreiber, 69, a Christian Democrat, and Socialist Otto Suhr, 59, chairman of the assembly. The votes were cast and counted, and for the first time in three years, the "great coalition" that united Berlin behind Reuter's Socialists broke asunder. The right-wing parties (Christian Democrats and Free Democrats) split with their Socialist allies...
...engaging in the usual horse trading with other parties before presenting himself for investiture. He now jarred the Assembly with the remark: "I will ask all [my cabinet ministers] to engage themselves on their honor not to participate in the government which will succeed mine." Young, ambitious Assemblymen were delighted. But older political leaders, the professional perennial ministers, were suspicious. When it came to the vote, there were 191 deliberate abstentions and 119 (including the 96 Communists) votes against him. Nevertheless there were 301, votes (including the 105 Socialists) in his favor, only 13 short of the number necessary...