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Pearson seemed surprised by the fuss. Denis had already quietly resigned; Pearson now accepted Guy Rouleau's resignation and appointed Chief Justice Dorion as a one-man commission of public inquiry. To make matters worse, in the midst of the investigation Racketeer Rivard escaped from Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, has not been seen since...
...Rhodesia, which is clamoring for independence. Led by Ghana's Nkrumah, the black African Commonwealth nations demanded that Britain head off efforts by the colony's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, to ensure that Rhodesia's constitution will perpetuate white supremacy. The Africans wanted Britain to order one-man, one-vote elections within three months' time. Wilson, while promising to work toward majority rule by Rhodesia's Africans, made it clear nonetheless that the final timetable for Rhodesian independence will...
Flipped Wigs. The spontaneity sometimes sounds a little studied-especially in his leads, which have a tendency to come on like a psychedelic one-man band. The beginning of his piece on Las Vegas, for example, consists of the word "hernia" repeated no fewer than 57 times. And if the 25 pages that follow jump and shimmer at times in their observations and their writing, they also suffer from prose that has a tendency to clot and baroque scrollwork similes that have a familiar look...
Stray Clemency. As coups go, Boumedienne's was impressively efficient and bloodless. Only at Hydra, in the suburban heights above Algiers, did the police put up a good fight. What baffled most observers was why Boumedienne acted when he did. Ben Bella ran a one-man show for nearly three years and ran it badly, but always with the strong support of Boumedienne and his 60,000-man army. It was Boumedienne who routed the guerrillas who seized Algiers to protest Ben Bella's overthrow of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne who crushed Colonel Mohammed Chaabani...
...case did the Supreme Court issue any further guidelines about what it considers to be constitutional reapportionment. This fact was caustically noted by Justice John Marshall Harlan in a dissent to the New York decision. Wrote Harlan, who had also dissented to the original one-man, one-vote ruling: "I am wholly at a loss to understand the Court's casual way of disposing of this matter. The Court should be willing to face up articulately to these difficult problems which have followed as a not unnatural aftermath of its reapportionment decisions of last term. These matters bristle with...