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Since 1957 UCV's budget has grown from $6 million to $20 million annually. But once this money has been awarded to the University, the Ministry of Education exercises no further direction on its use. The University Council exercises sovereign control over the campus and all that pertains to it. The 19-man Council consists of the Rector, the Vice-Rector, the University Secretary, the 11 Deans of the faculties, three students, one graduate, and a representative of the Minister of Education. All Council positions are elective and are the subject of energetic partisan politics. The elections are dominated...
...rather so assert your sovereign will...
Gloucester: A subject's vice may be a sovereign's virtue...
...agree with anything Mayor Daley said," cried Holman. "Everybody knows there are ghettos here. And if those of you from Mississippi think you're the first persons ever bitten by police dogs, you're wrong. That little technique began right here in the sovereign state of Illinois. And we've got more segregated schools here than you've got in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana combined...
...bitter disappointment to the U.S. While Latins are well aware of Castro's troublemaking (Mexico, for example, takes mug shots of every Cubana Airlines passenger), many nations are still reluctant to go on record in favor of anything that suggests intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state. Even embattled Venezuela, long Castro's No. 1 target, refused to go along, arguing that a travel ban and other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist subversion with measures that are not in strictest conformity...