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...Washington office so that New York can get a larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under a unified leadership, Lindsay achieved part of his goal with an executive order. He now aims to regroup most of the city's 80-odd departments and bureaus into ten superagencies. Before bothering to obtain legislation, he has already created six such superdepartments, covering transportation, housing, health services, human resources, recreation and cultural affairs, and finance. This week formal legislation will be introduced in the city council...
...Bonn & Back. At the time of his clearance, Kiesinger was practicing law in his beloved Swabia, later settled his wife, daughter and son in Tübingen not far from his boyhood home. Germany's political factions were encouraged by the occupation authorities to regroup on a county and city level as a first stage toward forming state and national governments. Kiesinger felt drawn to the newly formed Christian Democrats, whose membership embraced both Catholics and Protestants. When the first postwar elections were held in 1949 for a West German government, Kiesinger was one of the winners...
...north of Manila, brought together such disparate neighbors as Australia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand, and ended with agreement on joint action for the region. The principle of "Maphilindo," endorsed by Marcos' predecessor, Diosdado Macapagal, idealized the hope of Asia's Malay nations (Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia) to regroup ethnically after ages of European-imposed fragmentation. Marcos himself has led the Philippines into a new Asian grouping, the nine-nation ASPAC? and simultaneously he has revived the long dormant Association of Southeast Asia (an economic union of Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines...
...Michel Debré has announced a "milestone" agreement that "avoids both a system of laissez-faire, or indifference, and a system of state control." The government will lend the steel industry $544 million, doled out at a rate of about $120 million annually, at low interest, to modernize and regroup. The four biggest French steelmakers recently formed two new combines...
...still doing most of the yeomen work. They shot four looters dead in stores they were sacking, fought a pitched gun battle with several others holed up in a garage; the rioters emerged carrying a wounded woman and waving a white flag. Gradually hemmed in, the rioters attempted to regroup elsewhere, started appearing in widely separated areas of Los Angeles County as far as 10 miles from the original battleground. Threatening bands of Negroes roamed as far west as La Brea Avenue, little more than a mile from hallowed Beverly Hills. Panic seeped through the whole vast city. From...