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...Mintoff and his compatriots are unpredictable folk. Just how unpredictable the British learned last week when Mintoff rose in the paneled chamber of Malta's Legislative Assembly and proposed a resolution that "representatives of the Maltese people in Parliament declare that they are no longer bound by agreements and obligations toward the British government..." The resolution, seemingly a declaration of intent to secede from the British Empire, was passed unanimously...
...British islands in the Lesser and Greater Antilles, now nearing the end of an evolution into a federation that will make them the hemisphere's 23rd nation, last week got a Governor General-the first symbol of their unity. In the rambling Legislative Council Chamber in Trinidad, the federation's capital, Britain's Lord Hailes, 56. took his oath of office before Trinidad's Chief Justice...
...council adopted an income tax ordinance without a public vote. Shouts of outrage echoed in the Rockies, as the Denver citizenry dramatized memories of the Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into the suburbs, lined up against the mayor. Organized labor supported Big Nick...
Immaculate in a dark, double-breasted suit and light-colored tie, jaunty Mayor Lauro, 70, pushed through the throng into the council chamber. He went, not to the mayor's chair, but to a seat among his Monarchist councilors...
...week earlier the Senate and Chamber of Deputies had elected all state legislators and city councilmen, and the state legislatures, not to be outdone, had simultaneously elected a new Senate. A few legislators discovered that they had been chosen without their own knowledge...