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...elections, officials of the caretaker Masjumi (Moslem) Party government of Burhanuddin Harahap used a fleet of 100 yachts and fishing boats, air-force planes, army trucks, oxcarts and 3,500 bicycles to transport ballots. They distributed millions of leaflets, showing the different par ty symbols and explaining to the elector ate the simple mechanics of voting -punching a hole through the symbol of one's choice. Electoral officers plodded through the jungles to advertise the election with cartoon movies and singing pup pet shows. Sample song: "Let's all go there, brother, brother...
...pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
...cannonballs at "the Pope of Rome" Not until the birth (in 1910) of the political party now led by Alcide de Gasperi were Catholics of modern Italy free to participate in politics. Under Pius IX's 1868 Non Expedit decree (it is not expedient), a Catholic could "neither elector nor elected" be; Pius deemed it a surrender for Catholics to join in the affairs of the determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy. But as the political peril to religion developed on the left, the ban slowly relaxed...
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by the grace of Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, was an arrogant, auburn-haired New England dandy with a taste for rich widows and a talent for cultivating royalty. Egotistical and a thoroughgoing snob, he deserted the colonies during the American Revolution and went into the pay of the British. But for all his faults, he was a remarkable scientist. In a bright, admiring new book, An American in Europe (Rider & Co., London), British Journalist Egon Larsen celebrates the 200th birthday of "the insufferable genius...
...daughter and fled to London. Knighted for his service to King George III, he soon became famed as a scientific busybody. Most of his experiments in those days dealt with naval cannon (recoil and the velocity of missiles). After the Revolution, Sir Benjamin went to work for the Elector of Bavaria. In short order, he became Minister of War, Minister of Police, Major General, Chamberlain of the Court and State Councilor. In his spare time, he invented a laborsaving kitchen range and organized a workhouse for Munich's beggars. Honored with the title of count and required to choose...