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...Parliament will still be chosen personally by el Caudillo. Two weeks ago, Franco stopped off in Madrid from a summer holiday in Galicia, announced his choices, then left again for some hunting in Andalucia. An other 394 members of Parliament will be picked by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions, Falange, and professional and cultural organizations. The big change will come in the selection of the remaining 104 members. They will be popularly elected by Spain's family heads and married women over 21, representing half of Spain's 32 million people. Two representatives will be chosen...
...City Council, which is currently elected city-wide, should be reorganized to assure Roxbury's representation. Either proportional representation or a system of district councilmen would achieve this goal...
...during one of his rare stateside visits: "During the past nine years, 53,000 Vietnamese-a large share of them teachers, policemen and elected or natural leaders-have been killed or kidnaped. Translated to the United States, that would be more than 600,000 people, with emphasis on mayors, councilmen, policemen, teachers, government officials and even journalists who would not submit to black mail." For the past three weeks, Communist terrorists have relentlessly harassed the inhabitants of 991 Vietnamese hamlets and villages, which this month are casting ballots in the nation's first local elections to be held since...
...Cortes. The 611-member Cortes, meantime, will be reduced to 403 members, including 108 who will be directly elected from Spain's 54 provinces, 25 who will be appointed by the chief of state, and 270 others who will be elected by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions and professional organizations. Thus, for the first time since the Civil War, Spaniards will have a say-though yet hardly more than a whisper-in the work of the legislature...
...bother to vote in local elections up North; by contrast, 85% of the Jews vote, and get commensurate rewards when politicians pass out patronage or nominations. New York's 16% Negro population elects only one of the city's 19 U.S. Congressmen, two of the 37 city councilmen...