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Revolt Against Rome. Excommunicated, Luther was saved from arrest and death by Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony, whose domains included Wittenberg, and given sanctuary at the lonely Wartburg Castle. Luther stayed for nearly a year, during which he translated the New Testament into German. Meanwhile, the revolt against Rome spread; in town after town, priests and town councils removed statues from the churches and abandoned the Mass. New reformers, many of them far more radical than Luther, appeared on the scene-Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich, the ex-Dominican Martin Bucer in Strasbourg, Thomas Munzer in Zwickau. More important, princes...
...violate anyone's rights under the 15th Amendment, which the Voting Rights Act is predicated and bottomed on " But what of the U.S. doctrine that federal law supersedes state law? US Supreme Court has held many times," said Patterson, "that there is no such thing as a federal elector. The only electors are those qualified in the individual states. We realize Congress has the right to protect individuals under the 15th Amendment. But we don't concede it the right to write the election laws of the state of Mississippi...
Died. Clemente Cardinal Micara, 85, vicar general since 1951 and unofficial bishop of Rome (the title belongs to the Pope), known to fellow members of the Vatican Curia as the "Grand Elector" for his key role in lining up conservatives behind his friend and fellow liberal Giovanni Cardinal Montini in the 1963 papal elections; after a long illness; in Rome...
...Philippines. Everywhere I heard that Ho had once been regarded, and rightfully so, as the George Washington to Indochina. He had led his people against the imperialist French and, with General Giap, had waged a brilliant, tightly-organized campaign against a superior enemy. Is there say need of a elector parallel with Washington...
...judge federal court in San Antonio. Result: an injunction, based on the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause, forbidding Texas to deny suffrage to anyone "entering military service as a resident citizen of another state, who otherwise in good faith meets all of the requirements of a qualified elector in this state." Texas may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but meanwhile at least 25,000 servicemen hope soon to exercise the right to vote in elections in Texas...