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...Treasury officials have urged European governments for months to enact reforms that would make it easier to raise capital in their financial centers, but genuine progress has been negligible. Last week Washington finally took an unusual step to prod the Europeans. The Treasury issued a book-size document that draws highly critical comparisons between Europe's creaking, suspicious and medieval bond and stock markets and the wide-open, well-heeled U.S. markets. Europe's capital markets, said Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, "are not as efficient and as effective as they might be, and as they will need...
...plans to transfer the judicial duties of the college Board of Hall to proposed individual House judicial boards were submitted to the Radcliffe Government Association yesterday. An amendment to the RGA constitution would be necessary to enact such a plan...
...Presidential succession law ought to be changed now, but if it proves impossible to enact an amendment at this session, Sen. Bayh and his allies should keep trying. The country has learned how important the Presidential succession law is; it should not forget the lesson...
...enough in this country about equal rights," he said. "We have talked for 100 years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law. I urge you again, as I did in 1957, and again in 1960, to enact a civil rights law so that we can move forward to eliminate from this nation every trace of discrimination and oppression that is based upon race or color. There could be no greater source of strength to this nation both at home and abroad...
...there is only one tribute that can give meaning to his death. It is simply this: that the ideals he lived for be embodied in law. No single piece of legislation was closer to him than a strong civil rights bill. If, in the face of his death, we enact laws he urgently desired, then alongside the tragedy, his spirit is proclaimed. If we do nothing, it is not fate, but we who render his death senseless and empty. We did not bring on the President's death, but we truly dispose of it by what we make...