Word: reformations
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...anything on him since his personal record is remarkably clean for a Filipino politician. Anticorruption has become the main plank in the campaign of a third candidate in the race, ex-Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus, who left the Liberal Party to run for the presidency as leader of the reform-minded Party for Philippine Progress...
...Johnson's attitude than President Marco Robles. Taking office nine months after the bloody January 1964 riots, Robles put a damper on fiery nationalists, sought a reasonable solution with the U.S. over the canal crisis. An honest and decisive administrator, he has pushed through a much-needed tax reform, has brought new stability and order to Panama. This week he must deliver his state-of-the-nation address to the Panamanian National Assembly. He can report that his reasonable approach has accomplished far more for Panama than all the hotheads ever have...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
...sharp rebuttal for plaintiffs, President Joseph Kelner of the American Trial Lawyers Association last week attacked the defense monograph as a "radical abandonment" of "dignified and customary" methods of legal reform. According to Kelner, only 2% of all claims ever go to verdict, defendants win more than 50% of the verdicts, and judges are well-equipped to set aside excessive awards...
Congress passed an Immigration Reform Bill yesterday that eliminated the 51-year-old National Origins Quota System and imposed, for the first time, quotas on countries in the Western Hemisphere...