Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, 400 years after the Spaniards arrived in Florida to establish the first settlement in the continental U.S., the nation's Congress paid historic hom age to the heterogeneous men who helped build the U.S. By a 76 to 18 vote, the Senate adopted a sweeping new immigration reform bill that strikes down the restrictive " national origins" quota system that has discriminated against Southern Europeans and Asians since 1924, when nearly 80% of white Americans traced their forebears to northern and western Europe. "After 40 years, we have returned to first principles," said Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy...
...prosperous economy that he is considering his own Alianza-like program to help less-developed neighbors. Mexico's strongly independent President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz paid high compliments to U.S. Alianza efforts in his recent state-of-the-nation speech. The U.S. is pushing hard for social reform in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, all run by authoritarian regimes that are not necessarily throwbacks to the old-line oligarchies...
...went Premier Fernando Schwalb and a Cabinet chosen chiefly for its skills in steering Belaúnde's reform program. In as Premier came Dr. Daniel Becerra de la Flor, 59, a leading surgeon and a Senator from Belaúnde's Acción Popular party. With him came eleven new ministers, all Deputies or Senators, except for military men in the armed forces ministries. Said Belaúnde: "The new Cabinet will seek closer cooperation with the opposition...
...encyclical Ecclesiam Suam (His Church). One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo Cardinal Marella, and almost nothing has been heard of it since. Two years ago, Paul announced that he intended to reform the Curia; so far, his only visible step has been to have Francesco Cardinal Roberti, a curial man himself, ask the chiefs of the Roman congregation to suggest some changes. Says one Italian bishop: "You don't ask a man to perform an operation on himself...
Gloomy Figures. British businessmen scoffed. "We have doubts and suspicions," growled the powerful Confederation of British Industry. "A pallid pill," said the Institute of Directors. "The missing ingredient is incentive." Wrote the Economist: "The plan talks of growth and great social reform, but it dare not set down the proposals to achieve them, not with all those foreign bankers looking on. What Labor has got now is responsibility without power, the prerogative of the cuckold down the ages." When Brown went on television to defend the plan, the Tories demanded (and got) equal time to reply...