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...ballot. Exactly how many will not be known until mid-August, when President Suharto will announce the results. But since the government had already reserved the right to appoint 100 members of the 460-member House of Representatives, there is little doubt that the military regime will obtain a clear majority in Parliament and thus be able to re-elect the quiet Javanese general as President...
...took off for Argentina, never to be heard from again. She spent 56 years as one of Italy's "white widows"-women whose husbands have emigrated and left them behind, still legally and indissolubly married. Last week Signora Gattoronchieri, now 103 years old, became the oldest person to obtain a decree since divorce became legal in Italy last December...
...want to go back. But after spending six troubled years in New York City, where he lost $20,000 as a landlord, and was sentenced to two days in jail for harassing his tenants, Meredith has abandoned the North to return to Jackson, Miss., where he will campaign to obtain more economic power for blacks. "The South," Meredith announced, "is a more livable place for blacks than any other place in the nation...
...House of Representatives supports HR 1, the nation will make dramatic progress toward helping poor families obtain dignity and opportunity through work training, services and income support. However, if the House of Representatives rejects Title IV of HR 1, or defeats the bill, we will be committed to perpetuation of a system that is an obsolete and demoralizing failure...
...keel space in shipyards at any price, Pao continues to stagger his competitors with orders on a scale that few can match. Because he pays top dollar, places orders in such great quantity and has cultivated close ties with owners of Japanese shipyards, he usually manages to obtain space. Last week he announced his latest deal-six supertankers totaling 1.5 million tons to be built by a consortium of five Japanese shipyards. The price: $180 million. Even the Japanese, who build nearly 50% of the world's new merchant tonnage, have been blinking at such gargantuan orders...