Word: democratically
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...million acres of National Forest into a new preserve system, authorize the President to add up to 54 million more acres of public land over ten years. The Senate also passed the wilderness bill in 1961, but it was bottled up in the House Interior Committee, headed by Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall. Aspinall opposes the bill again this year...
...Senate has passed the Wilderness Bill by a huge majority. In the House the bill is now under scrutiny again by the Interior Committee which finally sent to the floor last year an amended version that was more like a poaching permit than a wilderness preservation act. Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall, committee chairman and leader of the opposition insists that the bill would "lock up" valuable commercial tracts and jeopardize Congressional authority over Federal lands. The first charge is both pernicious and absurd; the other is merely absurd...
Michigan's new constitution provides for four-year terms (instead of two-year) for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and other high officials. It requires that the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor be members of the same party (the present Lieutenant Governor, T. John Lesin-ski, is a Democrat). It erases Michigan's strangling short-term-debt limit of $250,000 by authorizing short-term borrowing of up to about $70 million. And it provides for combining the state government's bewildering jumble of 120 administrative segments in a manageable pattern of 20 agencies...
Last week, as Arévalo's return drew near, Guatemala was declared in a "state of siege," and travel was restricted. Somehow Arévalo slipped through the net into Guatemala. In a secret interview to newsmen he called himself a democrat: "I do not like Communism and will not be a Communist." Then he disappeared. A few hours later, the military made their move. A communiqué after the coup promised to restore constitutional rights "when the country is ready,'' and "extremists have been eradicated...
...whole problem has "been obscured in the great fog bank of clichés raised by some of the press,'' said Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Robert Manning. The State Department, he insisted, "is as wide open as Yankee Stadium." Could be, cracked Connecticut Democrat John Monagan, but "we have had a lot of trouble with the turnstiles...