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Trottenberg, a member of the Committee on Houses, will study the proposal's financial ramifications. He will report back to the Masters during one of their informal, nine-man meetings...
...indictment claimed that in 1960 Furcolo wanted to guarantee the re-appointment of his commissioner of public works, Anthony N. DiNatale. Under Massachusetts' archaic (1780) constitution, final approval for gubernatorial appointments must come from the nine-man Governor's Council, an elected board that treasures its control over some 1,000 state patronage jobs. The grand jury charged that Furcolo had conspired to pay off four council members so they would vote for DiNatale. In last week's indictment, the four council members-Democrats all -were charged with asking for and getting a bribe in a conspiracy...
After six weeks of intramural argument, Uruguay's nine-man National Council of Government finally decided to go along with the OAS ruling on Cuba. By a vote of six yeas (with three abstentions), the Council last week broke all economic and diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship. The abstainers held that Uruguay's traditional position of nonintervention should be maintained. The other councilmen felt that the OAS decision had to be honored as part of Uruguay's treaty obligations. In Montevideo, a crowd of 2,000 pro-Castroites started to stage a rock...
...delegates easily dismissed the Nkrumah proposal of instant union as wholly unrealistic. They reacted more strongly when Nkrumah struck out at the O.A.U.'s "liberation committee"-a nine-man group that coordinates and finances the activities of some 16 separate "freedom fighter" organizations aimed at freeing the African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses...
Appearing in court on a stretcher-he suffers from diabetes-Can, 53, denied all. Asked to substantiate his denials, he snapped: "Who would give evidence for me in the situation I am in?" It took a nine-man tribunal 90 minutes to condemn him to death by firing squad or the guillotine, which, introduced by the French, is still occasionally used in South Viet...