Word: reform
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Communications between prisoners and the administration of Walpole State Prison have virtually broken down, the Ad Hoc Committee On Prison Reform, which coordinates the Walpole State Prison Citizen Observer Program, reported Tuesday...
...monarchy was abolished in June, Archbishop leronymos of Athens, for 18 years a chaplain at the royal palace, dutifully sent his bishops an order to eliminate prayers for the royal family from all church services. Such outward meekness has masked considerable turmoil of another kinda struggle over power and reform within the bishops' own ranks...
When the junta of right-wing army colonels seized power in Greece in 1967, they promised, with characteristic fervor, a regime of "Christian reform and purity." At the time, few things in Greece seemed to need reform and purity more than the Greek Orthodox Church itself, which encompasses-at least nominally-97% of the population. Churches, schools and chaplaincies were some 3,000 priests short. The available ones, most of whom had never gone past the sixth grade, were paid as little as $33 a month. The conservative and antiquated hierarchy-most bishops were over 70 -paid little attention...
...Diet's all-powerful lower house, the Communists have nonetheless managed to stall or stymie the government of Premier Kakuei Tanaka on several major issues. Through street demonstrations and a boycott of parliament, which the other opposition parties joined, they forced Tanaka to drop a redistricting reform bill that would have virtually ensured the Liberal Democrats a permanent majority in parliament. They also played a major role in the political maneuvering that led to the embarrassing cancellation of Emperor Hirohito's planned state visit to the U.S. If Tanaka is forced by circumstance to resign as Premier before...
...became famous doing impersonations of Nixon, claims he gets his biggest guffaw when he has Nixon say: "The odds are 100 to 1 that I'll be impeached, 50 to 1 that I'll resign. That is not the reason that I am today signing a prison-reform bill. There will be a two-bedroom suite for anyone who has once held the highest office." Far from alienating his audiences with Watergate gags, says Frye, "the only danger I've had is not going far enough. If I hold back, the audience is disappointed." Frye has already...