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Haiti is supposed to elect its next President in April, although no exact date has been set. Holding down the office until then was Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, the Supreme Court justice who constitutionally succeeded ousted President Paul Magloire (TIME, Dec. 24). Inoffensive President Pierre-Louis sat tight and did not attempt the sweeping government cleanup that Déjoie urged. Impatient, Déjoie last week called a general strike and forced Pierre-Louis...
There are two statutes in the General Laws of Massachusetts, however, which do somewhat confine the School Committee statutes upon which Shaplin is relying to obtain a permanent injunction against the appointments. Chapter 71, Section 38, of the General Laws reads: "it (the committee) shall elect and contract with the teachers of the public schools, shall require full and satisfactory evidence of their moral character, and shall ascertain their qualifications for teaching and their capacity for the government of schools." Section 59 of the same chapter also reads in part: A superintendent... shall be the executive officer of the committee...
...more favorable light for the Dean's office, two solutions are offered. One is, do away with the presidency altogether and let everybody fight on equal ground. Thinking back on the club's presidents in recent years, this doesn't seem a bad idea at all. The other is, elect both major contenders, and have them rule like the twin consuls of Rome. This way, everybody wins. Difficulties over policy may arise, but it will be hard for the club to become more ineffectual than...
...aggression-an intent made clear and plain to the Communists- would prevent such aggressions. If we foolishly allowed the Communists to be lieve that they could engage in aggression on their own timetable, in the place they choose, and with assurance they would meet only the type weapons they elect to employ, we would encourage local aggression everywhere...
...liberal stand than the region's big dailies on the touchy desegregation issue. In the midst of the race riots in Clinton, Tenn., last December, Weekly Editor Horace Wells's Page One Courier-News column calmly argued for peaceful integration of Clinton's high school, helped elect a pro-integration slate to the city council (TIME, Dec. 17). "How long," asked the Courier-News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia...