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Looking for Leadership. Can collective political power be far behind? At present, the Common Market is politically stagnant, its parliament virtually powerless, its bureaucrats in Brussels more adept at harmonizing the design of milk bottles than at deciding important matters of policy. Ralf Dah-rendorf, one of nine EEC commissioners, accuses the organization of being incapable of recovering the broad political vision of its founders. Guide Carli, head of the Bank of Italy, recently declared that economic development has gone about as far as it can go without further political development. And political development-meaning internal integration and common international...
However, all of these efforts are hampered by the lack of money and influence at the disposal of Hakim's supporters. Hakim is King of a powerless kingdom...
...self-defense, wirtes in Soledad Brother that the charge was just one in a number of attempts to undermine his growing influence with other cons. "This is all a well-thought out effort to frighten me...I guess they want to show me and those around me here how powerless I am in their hands." However, the ploy, Jackson asserts, is not going to work...
...second relevant characteristic is that the indeterminate concept was originally applied only to the poorest and most powerless classes of offenders, juveniles and prostitutes. People with no reliable leverage on the outside, they were committed to indefinite imprisonment without having legal or practical methods to protect themselves from any abuses the detention officials might make of their absolute power. That the indeterminate sentence concept was not widely applied to other classes of convicts in America until after 1935 is perhaps more due to the efforts of the organized crime lobby than to those of the "treat 'em rough" school...
...however, he did not lack for opposition, as last week's elections to the Lower House of South Viet Nam's National Assembly abundantly demonstrated. The Assembly has been corrupt-a vote cost $ 180 and ardent support of a bill brought up to $1,800-and virtually powerless, and so many candidates ran this time that the election was a cross between a popularity contest and a lottery. But the voting did reveal Thieu's growing unpopularity. Thieu had hoped to win a solid two-thirds majority in the 159-seat house, but not even his supporters...