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...buttress that contention, the chief government spokesman emphasized at a press conference that all government power is now being exercised solely through the Cabinetland Premier, as prescribed in the new constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified last September. Papadopoulos appointed a commission of jurists and civil servants to draw up the 25 or so laws that are needed to implement the precepts of the constitution. In a nationwide radio address, Papadopoulos promised to ease the country's rigid revolutionary rule and to introduce extensive social re forms. The thrust of his actions in dicated that the initial military phase...
...indeed making progress. He could still hope for a lucky break-sudden agreement at the Paris peace talks, for instance, or a spicy Republican scandal. In Maryland, reporters from at least half a dozen major publications were delving into Spiro Agnew's financial affairs, looking for evidence to buttress old speculation that Agnew was implicated in conflict-of-interest situations while a Baltimore county official. Nothing new or sensational was turned up by week's end, but the fact that there was any inquiry at all could only hearten the Democrats...
...elaborate defense mechanisms will persuade the SEC to leave the fixed-commission system intact. At week's end the Justice Department, which takes a dim view of Wall Street's fears of fee competition, notified the SEC that it will soon submit more evidence to buttress its stand. Never before has the SEC faced such pressures for radical surgery on the heart of the securities business. Even if it should finally side with the stock exchanges, the Justice Department could force the issue into the courts with an antitrust suit. That is a prospect that makes Wall Street...
Critics' Charges. The Chancellor's testimony was certain to have considerable psychological and political significance at home and abroad. In Germany, it will buttress the argument that the great mass of Germans, including even those in relatively high places, were innocent of any knowledge that 6,000,000 Jews and at least 1,000,000 other persons, including many Germans, were dying unspeakable deaths in extermination centers. Abroad, it will only further provoke Germany's critics, who contend that many Germans knew what was happening but refused to admit that they knew...
Feeling at Home. "The U.S.," charged a Hanoi party paper, "is deliberately trying to delay the contacts." The Administration responded publicly by trying to buttress its position and privately by attempting to break the impasse. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said it was time for Hanoi to make a "serious and responsive answer" to U.S. diplomatic communications. Rusk then proposed ten additional countries acceptable to the U.S.: Ceylon, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia, Italy, Belgium, Finland and Austria...