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Despite the odds, Sánchez predicted: "I will win if the people are allowed to decide." To make that possible, Sánchez is attempting to expand the primary election system, now restricted to lower offices, to include the governorship. Otherwise, the August convention will be controlled by the party organization. The outcome is uncertain; never before has Puerto Rico gone through a political brawl, mainland style...
Like a stake driven into the ground by the repeated blows of a sledgehammer, Harold Wilson's reputation has sunk lower and lower with each passing month. In the 13 by-elections since the country as a whole went to the polls in 1966, the Prime Minister's Labor Party had lost six of its constituencies and seen the majority in its three others cut sharply. Last week, in the first by-elections since the introduction of the government's stringent new budget, the sledgehammer fell on Labor with such force that it all but buried what...
...more than $300 billion since 1961, the net outflow of aid from their governments is just about the same as it was then-$6 billion. U.S. foreign aid accounts for half the total; but the U.S. gives only six-tenths of 1% of its G.N.P. in aid-a much lower ratio than France, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands, all of which give 1% or more...
...Life Begins began, literally, with the birds and the bees, covered marine life and then the lower mammals (a spaniel bitch lovingly licking life into a pup emerging from her womb). With humans, the program called a sperm a sperm, and showed a natural birth at Manhattan's Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. The mother's face, at first view contorted during her contractions, suddenly suffused with pleasure at the first cry of her child. ABC also edited in segments of the famed Swedish film on the growth of the fetus that had been shown the week before...
Threatened Fabric. Most Europeans regard U.S. willingness to raise taxes as the gauge of its resolve to put its fiscal affairs in order. Technically, budget and payments deficits can be curbed by any combination of higher taxes and lower spending that bites deep enough. Since last fall, the impasse between Congress and the President over the mixture has thwarted meaningful action. Now there are a few signs of movement. Two weeks ago, Johnson offered to trim his budget request for fiscal 1969 by $9 billion-but only if Congress approves his plea for a 10% income-tax surcharge to siphon...