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...extraordinary transfer of power from a military dictatorship to a democratically elected government took place in Lima last week, on the 13 5th anniversary of Peru's independence from Spain. Inaugurated as President for a six-year term was Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 67, a conservative, pro-U.S. aristocrat who had already served one full presidential term, 1939-45.* On the same day the new Congress speedily and unanimously dismantled the dictatorship's legal structure. In a series of new-broom bills, the lawmakers declared an amnesty for political prison ers, swept away oppressive security laws, restored legality...
Under the provisions of the constitution, Premier Diem will become South Viet Nam's first President, for a six-year term, and the assembly members who forged the document will become the nation's first National Assemblymen, for four-year terms...
...these few kept up the clinical work so patients could continue their treatment and, more important, so that the School wouldn't close completely. Contact with future patients was maintained for the time when the new School would open. Meanwhile the building was being renovated, and the six-year plan was established...
...six-year plan also cost 25 students a year...
Lawyer Kekkonen, city-bred boss of Finland's Agrarian Party, squeaked in for his six-year term after the most protracted balloting in the republic's 38-year history. His final 151-149 victory came only after the Communists threw him their 56 votes. Though all Finns agree that they have to stay on good terms with their powerful neighbors, Kekkonen's frank campaign for a be-sweet-to-the-Russians policy galled the stubbornly independent souls of many Finns. Kekkonen maintained that a policy of appeasement won Porkkala back, and might yet persuade the Russians...