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...rule, Thailand promulgated a long-delayed new constitution and took the first, if hesitant, step toward a return to representative government. Like the ceremony itself, the constitution is more show than substance: it does not necessarily mean the end of the military regime or, for that matter, even of mar tial law, under which Thailand has been ruled for a decade. Only the day before the ceremony, General Praphas Charusathien, 55, strongman of a regime in which he holds the posts of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and army commander, had announced that martial law would remain in force...
...their four-year terms. Yet despite army coups and revolutions, they keep right on re-electing the man of their choice, however dubious his chances of staying the course in office. Last week Ecuadorians went to the polls for the first time since the army sacked President José María Velasco Ibarra in 1961. The winner and new President: José María Velasco Ibarra...
...evening, and especially in the group of folk songs and spirituals that closed the second third of the concert. James Jones, baritone, once again stood out for the sheer professionalism of his performance. There was, however, a certain unaccustomed tightness in his production which did not, in the end, mar the overall effect. Also featured were Allan Haley, tenor, Donald Meaders, baritone. Martin Kessler, baritone, an excellent sextet in Webbe's "Glorious Appollo," and Phil Kelsey doing several prodigious "swoops" in the Poulenc...
...operates Iran's own enormous oilfields refuses to bow to his demands to double production (now a record 130 million tons a year) in the next five years to finance his national-development program. The Shah is not at all impressed by consortium claims that the world oil mar ket is already glutted. Last month, when several of the consortium's member companies started drilling for offshore Saudi Arabian oil in the Persian Gulf, the Shah was so incensed that he dis patched patrol boats to stop the drilling and arrest the oilmen...
With Johnson's withdrawal, the bot tom dropped out of the prediction mar ket. Mary McGrory had pointed out that the pundits were wrong about Romney, wrong about McCarthy, wrong about Bobby, wrong about Rocky. "Everything is unintelligible," she wrote, "unless one takes the position that pub lic men of both parties are meeting in cellars and plotting new ways to make idiots of reporters, particularly those who earn their bread predicting what public figures are going...