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...seized power six years ago from a democratic but corrupt government, Ayub paternalistically promulgated the very constitution under which the general elections are being held. Among other things, Ayub's constitution allows women to run for office-something he may now regret. He developed a system of indirect elections called "Basic Democracy," under which voters are to choose 80,000 "basic democrats," or electors, who will cast their ballots next spring to elect a President. The men behind Fatima Jinnah, Ayub insists, want to make Pakistan "a paradise for politicians and a hell for the people...
Even when Johnson condescends to an indirect retort, his strictures against "the voices of extremism" raise no enthusiasm. The lack of response does not stem from disagreement with Johnson, but rather from the fact that most Americans are so overwhelmingly behind him that his philosophical differences with Goldwater seem little more than irrelevant abstractions...
...direct or indirect relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby has been discovered by the Commission, nor has it been able to find any credible evidence that either knew the other . . . The Commission has found no evidence that Jack Ruby acted with any other person in the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...Indirect Interest? Aside from the Johnsons' broadcasting empire, there is the matter of the Brazos-Tenth Street Co. Originated in 1955 as a real estate developer's device for holding an old building at Brazos and Tenth Streets in Austin, it is now a freewheeling, highly diversified outfit...
...architects have added an aluminum staircase inside it. New mosaics, tiles and marble from Italy, Greece, Turkey and Belgium have been set into the walls. The mosque is most resplendent after dark: for the first time, the Dome of the Rock is illuminated like a thousand Arabian nights, with indirect lighting inside and huge spotlights set on the grounds outside...