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...government under leftist Premier General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The previous Cabinet-the fourth since the April 25, 1974 revolution-collapsed this month when Socialists and other moderates resigned. Reason: they were protesting an M.F.A. plan to set up local revolutionary councils that would bypass the authority of the elected Constituent Assembly (TIME, July 28). At week's end, as the once peaceful revolution became increasingly violent, the M.F.A. opted for another new plan of government that not only enables Gonçalves to hold on to his office, but also brings Portugal perilously close...
...political blueprint for Portugal that had been approved by the 240-member Armed Forces General Assembly after 18 hours of deliberation. In essence, the program would give power to the people through local revolutionary councils. To some, the establishment of the plan looked like a Communist-inspired attempt to bypass the popularly elected Constituent Assembly, in which the moderate forces have a majority. Portugal's outraged Socialist leader, Mario Scares-perhaps the country's best hope for Socialism with a human face -resigned from the government, in which he served as Minister Without Portfolio, declaring that his party...
University officials decided at a series of meetings last month to bypass Harvard's normal federally required affirmative action procedures in appointing Alberta Arthurs dean of undergraduate affairs...
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer. Far from admiring merchants, he looked upon them as a greedy lot who were forever trying to bypass the market by conspiring to fix prices and hold down wages. But he thought, somewhat naively, that such monopolistic schemes could prosper only with the active aid of government?which, in his day, they often got. So he advocated complete laissez-faire. Government, he said, should stop trying to regulate trade, cease all intervention in the market and let free competition work its wonders...
...under his arm. But Bill assured me he had lots of experience hitching cross country and he showed it too by telling me right off that we couldn't hitch in Reno and anyway we'd pick up more traffic moving east if we walked to where the Reno bypass met up with Route...