Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The HPC has only informally discussed the plan and will not officially consider it until late December, after the college-wide ratification of the present HUC constitution. An amendment approved by two-thirds of the HUC would have to voted on later by Harvard undergraduates.
Jaguaribe believes that Castelo Branco will retain only a "very small measure of acceptance." -- mainly form the ultra conservatives and the military. Even military support is shaky, since General Kruel, commander of a quarter of Brazil's army, publicly opposed Castel Branco's constitution changes.
Straw of Hope. Fearful above all of black rule, Smith has offered little more than window dressing in return. He seems willing to add to Rhodesia's legislature a senate of twelve African chiefs, but its powers would be dubious and most chiefs are government puppets, anyway. He suggests...
Still, the consequences of Rhodesia's long threatened "Unilateral Declaration of Independence" were so potentially grave that the game of bluff went on. In Salisbury, Smith postponed for a day his Cabinet's decision on U.D.I. At last, he claimed it was finally made, but refused to announce...
• REAPPORTIONMENT. What did the court really mean in 1962 by decreeing "one man, one vote"? This month the court 1) affirmed a temporary New York apportionment plan for election of the 1966 legislature, even though it violates the state constitution; 2) dismissed an appeal involving New York's...