Word: reform
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Last week Suárez began his riskiest high-wire venture yet by submitting a long-awaited political reform bill to the 561-member Cortes (parliament), still a conservative bastion. The measure would go a long way toward turning Spain into a parliamentary democracy. The Cortes-in which less than one-fifth of the deputies are popularly elected -would be replaced by a two-house legislature. One would be a popularly elected lower chamber of 350 seats, allotted on a proportional basis, and the other an upper house representing Spain's 51 provinces that would have 244 members...
...Constitution. If approved by the Cortes, the reform plan must be voted on in a national referendum, possibly as soon as December. If all goes well, elections for the legislature will be held by next summer. The first task of the two houses will be to draw up a new constitution that presumably will define the rights of the King, the specific powers of the two houses and the manner in which a Premier is chosen and dismissed...
Understandably unwilling to relinquish its powers and privileges, the men of "the Bunker"-diehard, archconservative Franquistas-have attacked Suárez's reform. They want the bill altered to grant more powers to the Council of the Realm, an appointive 17-man body that advises the King. The Franquistas also insist on an appointed upper house based on the Franco-style corporate system, rather than a popularly elected one. Because of the Bunker's opposition and the recent emergence of a center-right alliance of parties, Suárez may have to accept some modifications in order...
Over the last two years, Republicans have also made considerable progress in the area of tax reform. Under President Ford's direction, Congress recently passed an extensive tax reform bill that has eliminated numerous loopholes and inequities of pas tax legislation. At the same time, the Ford administration has judiciously encouraged corporate tax deducations in order to encourage investment and attendant generation of jobs in the private sector. With considerable vision, Ford has bucked the big-spending Democratic Congress in favor of fiscal responsibility. Through veto after veto he has condemned deficit spending and debasement of the currency as sure...
CONTRARY TO WHAT many along the American political spectrum have argued, voters do face a distinct choice on Election Day 1976. Across virtually the full range of issues--the economy, foreign policy, civil rights, tax reform and the environment, to name a few--Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford offer contrasting visions of America...