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Macapagal's political program is more rhetorical than specific, but he has promised to welcome foreign investment, protect local industry, get the government out of nationalized business, and to bring "decency and prosperity" to the Philippines. He has pledged himself to the "principle of command responsibility" on graft. By that he means that "I expressly hold myself responsible, morally and politically to the people, for malfeasance by members of my Cabinet, for the acts of my family and my intimates, for the general state of morality of the government, and for failure to take prompt and vigorous action...
Last week Mrs. Ribicoff went to the operating room in University Hospital. Columbus, under heavy sedation and local anesthetics. From the thigh. Surgeon Saunders took a "split-thickness graft"-a piece of skin about two by three inches less than 1/50 inch thick. Then he cut loose both sides of the nose so that he could lift them like flaps to get at the lower part of the septum, the gristly central partition. He scraped the mucous lining off this, removing many of the telangiectases with the membrane. Finally, Dr. Saunders put patches of the graft skin on each side...
Underlying and responsible for the graft, Richardson thinks, are apathy among the wealthy burghers and self-disrespect among individual politicians. "No longer an esteemed benefactor, and not yet a respected public servant, the politician, in the eyes of all too many citizens of Massachusetts, is a mere errand boy, remembered only when there is a ticket or a sidewalk to be fixed...
...description of a political career in Massachusetts, he implies that politics per se perpetuates its own corruption. Rather, as he indicated earlier, it is the complete subordination of issues to personal interest, not the favors system itself--an essential lubricant in the wheels of government--which has allowed graft to flourish in this state...
...little jurisdiction in the realm of political ethics. McCormack felt that a code of ethics, such as the one presently under consideration by a special state committee, might be more to the point. If political evil were clearly and legally defined, McCormack predicted, there surely would be less corruption. Graft could no longer be genial...