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...editorially over the succession issue. "It's not Wallace's destiny to become President," said the Montgomery Advertiser, usually the state's most fulsome Wallace worshiper. "We're against third-party futility " Wallace, who is against criticism, had his own way of dealing with the fractious press. The state government controls wholesale liquor distribution in Alabama and, by no coincidence, the six daily newspapers that have been opposing Wallace's second-term bid lost their liquor-advertising contracts last week...
...promises of social reform and a vigorous attack on corruption, coupled with the recent allied successes against the Viet Cong, have so far kept the nation's fractious Buddhists and Catholics quiescent: they simply cannot find credible grievances that will bring crowds into the street. Even though the Ky government has made no dent in the nation's two big problems-its 680,000 refugees and its soaring inflation-Saigon's political situation, say old hands, is the most stable that it has been since 1960. From time to time, there are complaints that...
...Anger. The sprightliest precampaign politicking has been supplied by the fractious Free Democrats, who are desperately worried lest they win less than 5% of the vote and lose their right to sit in the Bundestag. Their advertisements forcefully remind the electorate that they have not been afraid to walk out of the Cabinet when the Christian Democrats dragged their feet. Many Christian Democrats were so infuriated by the ads that they talked of throwing the Free Democrats out of the coalition-but they relented. No one wanted to reprimand the sinners so severely that they would be tempted to form...
...first seven months after the revolution, Brazil's notoriously fractious Congress passed a record 237 laws and constitutional amendments, more than a few at government pistol point. Among them were measures to increase taxes, adjust ridiculously low rents, head the country toward a central bank, start a sensible land-reform program, and assure private foreign investors of a square shake. When Congress reopens in two weeks, Castello Branco has another armful of proposals. He intends to let the air out of the government's bloated administrative payroll, a key move against inflation, deliver a plan for development...
...expected, the vote was not unanimous - therefore not binding. Yet it offered Pearson the first real hope in weeks that he might finally get a national flag to help give his fractious country a sense of nationhood and unity...