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Perhaps most fascinating of all is the questionnaire given visitors at one of the exhibits. They are asked to vote by ballot on four controversial Revolutionary issues: the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre Trials, the Tea Party and the British siege of the city. The ballots are fed into a computer, which so far has indicated that 27% of those questioned would be Tories and 47% patriots; the rest are undecided, that burgeoning American type...
...government's next reform will be a national yes/no referendum in October on proposals to create a bicameral legislature. The present rubber-stamp Cortes and National Council will be replaced in 1977 by a 300-member Lower House, elected by universal suffrage (long demanded by leftists). There will also be a 285-member Senate with "equal powers." Candidates for the Upper House will be put forward by an entrenched local power system that is the legacy of the Franco era: provincial authorities, government-sponsored labor unions and associations of businessmen. Forty will be members for life. The King will...
Figurehead President. Reflecting the demographics of the unified country, which will have a population of 44 million people, membership in the Assembly is weighted slightly in favor of the North; it has 249 representatives v. 243 for the South. Sitting in Hanoi, the Assembly will be mainly a rubber stamp to the ten-man Politburo of North Viet Nam's Lao Dong (Workers' Party). The legislators, warned Politburo Member Pham Hung, who is the party's chief representative in the South, will be expected to carry out Lao Dong policies "most scrupulously...
...lengthy discussions about Hoover's fanatical desire to destroy the New Left, and his seeming inability to recognize the civil rights of virtually anyone in any group to the left of the John Birch Society. Ungar is at his most graphic when he details Hoover's determination to stamp out left-wing opposition over his half-century tenure...
...white community, like anti-busing leader Louise Day Hicks, who implicitly condones acts of violence; and to Mayor Kevin White, who ostensibly serves the entire city, and who has failed both to take a decisive stand in favor of implementing school desegregation laws, and to offer new measures to stamp out racist violence in Boston. We extend our sympathy to Dennis Henderson and to all others who have been victimized by racism in Boston...