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...abuses were so flagrant that Governor Warren Hearnes appointed a commission to draw up re-organizational proposals. Eventually, the legislature drafted a constitutional amendment, which was supported by Missouri voters in a referendum. In January of 1973, after Hearnes had concluded the two terms permitted by Missouri law, Bond urged the legislature to take the last step and enact a specific reorganization law. Almost a year later, after a series of struggles between Bond and the legislature, both houses passed a bill acceptable to the Governor. Beginning in July, the state's agencies will be consolidated into 13 departments...
...most flagrant instance of Reston's selfcensorship came in April 1961. Ten days before the Bay of Pigs invasion, Times reporter Tad Szulc put together a detailed story describing the training of Cuban refugees in Miami and the imminence of an invasion. But before the first edition came off the presses, Times publisher Orvil Dryfoos--on Reston's advice--ordered several changes. The story was moved from the lead column eight position to column four, and the headline was reduced from four columns to one column. All references to the imminence of the invasion were eliminated, and information linking...
Serious advocates of impeachment have no quarrel with Schmidt that the standards being applied to Nixon should be applied with equal force to any President. What they are saying is that Nixon's conduct amounts to so flagrant an abuse of his office that the grounds already exist for impeachment, even under a narrow interpretation of the Constitution...
...students began marching in protest. They were soon joined by leading religious, civil and literary figures, who launched a campaign to collect 1,000,000 signatures on a petition asking for a restoration of democracy. His opponents were emboldened by the international protests touched off last fall by the flagrant kidnaping in Japan of Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung presumably by Park's secret police (TIME, Aug. 20). Finally, when the minority New Democratic Party pledged an "all-out struggle" for constitutional reform last week, Park felt that it was time...
Razor-Thin Profits. The terrorists' increasingly flagrant acts have finally spurred aging President Juan Peron, 78, to action. And well they should. One high American executive estimated that the kidnapings have already caused 60% of the foreign businessman in Argentina to leave the country in the past year. If the abductions continue, they could jeopardize an economy already deeply troubled by razor-thin profits and lack of capital investment by private industry. Prodded by such concerns, Peron reversed his benign neglect of Argentina's frightened foreigners and made a point of receiving the Ford vice president for Asia...