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...week's end, at Stokes's behest, the Cleveland Board of Elections agreed to delay certification of Locher's re-election pending an examination of precinct tally sheets and poll books. After that, Stokes has the right to demand a recount. Miffed, Locher said he would go ahead with the swearing-in ceremony this week in spite of the board's ruling...
...France public relations man at Orly Airport stepped forward with information which he said his conscience compelled him to bring to the police. He was Antoine Lopez, a Frenchman who had struck up an acquaintance with Ben Barka some years ago in Morocco. Lopez frankly admitted that at the behest of another old friend, one Georges Boucheseiche, he had intercepted Ben Barka in front of the restaurant, persuaded the Moroccan to drive with him to Boucheseiche's villa on the outskirts of Paris. There, Lopez was given to understand, "important Moroccans" were waiting to confer with Ben Barka...
Teddy Kennedy, at whose family's behest Morrissey was made a Boston municipal justice in 1958, avowed that the nominee's "qualities of character are of the highest order." Added House Speaker John McCormack: "I like a man who is loyal. What's wrong with rewarding your friends?" The most memorable characterization was offered by Walter McLaughlin, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, which did an about-face and decided to support Morrissey after twice opposing his nomination. "His educational background," said McLaughlin, "has been pilloried from post to post...
...Deicide. The text was the fourth presented to the council. The first one, prepared at the behest of Pope John' was a brief but forthright statement clearing the Jews of "deicide" in the death of Jesus; it was written by Augustun Cardinal Bea, chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Between the second and third sessions of the council, however, conservatives succeeded in getting a new draft that softened the references to Judaism and incorporated them within the framework of a longer declaration outlining the church's attitude toward other non-Christian faiths-including Islam. This draft...
...Last week a number of Christian communities in Jordan, at the behest of the Moslem mayor of Jerusalem, agreed to toll their church bells for ten minutes in protest over the council's expected endorsement of "the Jewish declaration...