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Kukrit, who heads the right-of-cen-ter Social Action Party, lost to his older brother-and political enemy-Seni Pramoj, 70, leader of the conservative Democrat Party. The Democrats swept all 28 National Assembly seats in Bangkok-including Kukrit's-and won 114 nationwide. Three military-backed parties agreed to join the Democrats in forming a Cabinet, which means that Seni will control at least 206 of the 279 seats in Parliament...
...disciplines demonstrated that Lonergan's influence has gone far beyond his original field of theology. In fact, says Fordham Jesuit Bernard Tyrell, Lonergan has become a true "phi losopher of culture": in his grasp of the process of understanding that un derlies every science, he is the 20th cen tury counterpart of a Renaissance...
Many medical and legal authorities object to substituting one form of addiction for another. Others are concerned about the lack of supervision in some treatment centers. Unless the cen ters check urine samples daily, addicts can continue to use heroin. But the program has solid support among those addicts enrolled, who see in it their only hope of leading a relatively normal life. Their hope is justified by a recent study of New York's methadone program. According to Dr. Dole, 82% of those who originally enrolled in the New York program are still participating, and three-quarters...
Down with Hypocrisy. The last bastions of separate men's and women's education are crumbling because they cen no longer find enough bright applicants willing to endure four years of monastic isolation. After Bennington announced that it was going coed, applications for this year's freshman class rose 56% over last year-despite the fact that the college's tuition had been hiked an average...
...first crack at revising and refining the Joint Chiefs' plan. The new arrangement has the effect of increasing the responsibility of the three civilian service Secretaries, Stanley Resor of the Army, John Chafee of the Navy and Robert Seamans Jr. of the Air Force. Laird feels that McNamara cen- tralized too many functions in his own office and that responsibility should be spread more evenly throughout the department. One of Laird's biggest challenges is to make the Pentagon more efficient in weapons procurement. To aid in this, he is giving the individual services more authority in managing programs...