Word: rubber-stamps
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Bolstered by a rubber-stamp election ratifying his unopposed candidacy for a five-year term as President, the Algerian leader also appointed a new, 15-member Cabinet of "qualified militants." Most of the ministers are distinguished by their loyalty to Ben Bella; five represent the army, which is run by shadowy No. 2 man Colonel Houari Boumedienne. At week's end Ben Bella prepared to journey to the U.S., where he plans to address the U.N. and, he hopes, make an aid-seeking side visit to President Kennedy...
...Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...
...leaning National Union of Popular Forces, showed startling strength, winning 43 and 28 seats respectively. If they ganged up in a coalition, the two groups might be able to control the House. Steamed up by their new prestige, opposition leaders were already demanding that the King's present rubber-stamp Cabinet be dissolved and boldly accusing the government of fraud at the polls. Istiqlal politicians even went around to the U.S. embassy complaining that F.D.C.I, had bought votes with U.S. gift wheat...
Four months after the assassination of President Sylvanus Olympio by a disgruntled army sergeant, the Togolese electorate went dutifully to the polls this week to choose a new government. There was little suspense about the outcome. The voters, handed a single list, could only rubber-stamp the military-backed regime that has succeeded Olympio in the tiny West African republic...
...from Harvard) supporting Ted Kennedy, such a situation has become a sad reality. The statement on behalf of Kennedy spends most of its 500 words mis-interpreting the positions of Teddy's Republican opponent, George Lodge, and directing the voter's attention to the youngest Kennedy's potential to rubber-stamp his brother's every wish in Congress. It pleads, in effect: "Re-elect John F. Kennedy United States Senator so he can be more effective President...