Word: gov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pathet Lao boycotted the elec tions. Lacking the substantial flow of men and arms that North Viet Nam has had to divert to the Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...
Young Reformers. One important reason for hope is the emergence of a new generation of reformers in Laotian politics. Calling themselves Les Jeunes Nationalistes, they are mostly professional men who are loyal to Souvanna and who worry about such things as education, health and corruption in gov ernment. Apparently, other Laotians are equally concerned, for the Young Nationalists won twelve of the 16 races they entered in the July elections. Their leader, 37-year-old Finance Minister Sisouk Na Champassak, practices what he preaches. "I have fired the entire customs department," he announced shortly after he took office, adding sardonically...
...last week came on the last of four days of debate, when a group of disgruntled Eastern Senators introduced amend ments that would limit the amount of federal money any one farmer could collect. Maryland Democrat Daniel Brewster suggested the ceiling should be $10,000 a year, argued that Gov ernment support money "is actually encouraging big farms to grow more wheat, which is sold to the taxpayers at a profit." His proposal was beaten. Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson offered a proposal to raise the ceiling to $25,000 a year. That was beaten. Delaware Republican John Williams tried...
...Central, looting . . . Yellow cab over turned . . . Man pulled from car on Imperial Highway . . . 88th and Broad way, gun battle . . . Officer in trouble." The riot was the worst in the city's history, one of the worst ever in the U.S. To help quell it, California's Gov ernor Pat Brown broke off a vacation in Greece and hurried home. "From here it is awfully hard to direct a war," said Brown. "That's what this...
...slums of Harlem, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, D.C. -and Los Angeles. Now there was at least a hope of change and perhaps a reason to stay. With Dispatch. Grasping at that hope, thousands of Negroes were flocking to register in the nine counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi where the Gov ernment has posted federal examiners to implement the voting law. They came last week in battered autos and char tered buses and on foot. They stood in the shimmering heat of midsummer, and they waited. Even when registrars as sured them, "We'll be here past today...