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Mexico's progress is the result of more than 30 years of political and economic stability under the uniquely long-lived, seldom heavy-handed rule of P.R.I., the Institutional Revolutionary Party. But P.R.I, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz have had a scattershot of troubles of late. Within the past 18 months, Diaz Ordaz has had to use paratroopers to quell student strikes on three campuses and militia to put down several rural protests over food prices and campesino grievances. Outside the glittering, wealthy cities live nearly half the people, scratching out incomes that average less than $16 per family...
...hearing held in Manhattan by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark's Senate poverty subcommittee, Kennedy was only echoing objections that have been raised frequently in recent years. Even so, as New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, another member of Clark's subcommittee, pointed out, such scattershot attacks are bound to hearten those who want to gut the whole antipoverty program...
...tone can be imparted to a play that juxtaposes the somber drum roll of the Kennedy funeral cortege with such inane Shakespearean mutations as "Oh whine and pout/ That ever I was born to bury doubt." But MacBird's basic flaw is that Playwright Garson is a frivolous, scattershot satirist who has no moral vision of her own to counterpose whatever might be regarded as evil in her characters. She has written an apolitical play in which all choices seem silly. The Ken O'Duncs are presented as chilly, ruthless opportunists; MacBird is a mixture of corn-pone...
...typical Americans, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, methodically shotgunned a family of four to death for no apparent reason, on November 14, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. Five years later in Manhattan, for even less apparent reasons, the New Yorker sustained an equally violent, scattershot attack by teddy-boy journalist, Tom Wolfe...
...over. Similarly, labor racketeering, a prime Kennedy target, will continue to get Katzenbach's attention; the new Attorney General will retain the so-called "Hoffa Unit," the anti-labor-racketeering section that was set up in the department under Bobby. Katzenbach feels that antitrust work has been too scattershot in the past, hopes to sharpen the focus of trustbusting onto areas that have "the most important impact on the economy." And one of Katzenbach's pet projects will certainly get fresh attention: the need for better legal aid for the poor. The department's new Office...