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Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens is beginning to sound and act like a man who is fighting for his political life. In February, the Chilean Congress, which is dominated by the opposition Christian Democratic and National parties, passed a constitutional reform bill that would prohibit the President from nationalizing any more private firms without congressional approval. If it should become law, the ban would be retroactive to October 1971. Last week Allende angrily vetoed the bill. He further declared that if his veto were overridden, he would introduce a measure to dissolve the Congress, and if Congress...
...President's course coincides with majority opinion in the U.S. today. But he did not have to take the course he chose. For example, he could have thrown the prestige of his office behind a somewhat toughened version of the Mansfield-Scott Amendment, which among other things would prohibit the use of federal funds for school desegregation unless a local community seeks them. The danger is that what has been billed as a correction of an unpopular device to achieve integration could turn into a headlong retreat from integration itself...
...important side issue a proposal for a Constitutional amendment to prohibit busing received nearly 75 per cent of the vote...
...Senate then went on to approve the Mansfield-Scott proposal by a handy 63 to 34. The proposal would prohibit the use of federal funds to implement busing unless local authorities requested the money-something they would undoubtedly do if faced with a court order to bus, since the alternative would be to raise their own funds. It would also delay execution of any court order requiring the transportation of children across school district lines until all appeals are heard, or until July 1, 1973. The bill's most substantive provision would prevent federal officials, but not the courts...
David W. Robinson, an assistant professor of History at Yale is sponsoring a proxy resolution which would prohibit the International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) from selling or leasing any of its products to the government of South Africa...