Word: governability
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...social and economic reforms. Despite Italy's vast new prosperity, millions south of Rome still live in desperate poverty. Fanfani wants public-works projects, stricter taxes and more schools. But the Christian Democrats were 26 seats short of a parliamentary majority (total number of seats: 596), had to govern with the support of smaller parties, and Fanfani's projects were blocked by the government's own allies, notably the conservative, free-enterprising Liberals. Hence Fanfani's decision to abandon the Liberals, instead cooperate with the left-wing Socialists, who favor his proposals...
...assassinate Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. the sanctions were retained after the dictator's own assassination-as a warning to his successors against a new dictatorship. But after months of cliff-hanging crisis, the troubled country seems on the way to its first democratic government in 32 years. Last week a Swiss-style council of state, composed largely of anti-Trujillo business and professional men, was installed to govern the nation until free elections promised for next December. Trujillo's holdover President, Joaquin Balaguer. will turn over chief-executive duties to the council...
...British govern the atoll as a crown colony, based on Captain James Cook's discovery of it in 1777. But in one of history's mildest international disputes, the U.S. has never relinquished, nor seriously pressed, its own claim, based on the working of guano deposits by an American firm there in the 1850s. Occupied jointly by the U.S. and Britain in World War II, the atoll supported a U.S. airbase. Britain had another Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, 200 miles south of Java. In 1958 the island was transferred to Australia, which still uses...
...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
Mayor Ben West of Nashville, Tenn., supported Collins' contention that "the mayor must go to the State legislature to get the power to govern." He stressed that if American cities are to survive, "they must be allowed sources of revenue besides property taxes...