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...Dominican Republic. Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco made no secret of his views. "We must acknowledge," he told delegates, "the inanity of our wanting collective protection and action without first creating effective machinery for collective decision-making and joint action." This is likely to stir a storm of protest from such ardent defenders of nonintervention as Mexico and Chile...
Jagan continues trying to stir the old racial fires, went so far as to boycott the constitutional conference. Burnham merely ignores him, and with Finance Minister Peter D'Aguiar, head of a small multiracial party, has helped work out a constitution that offers the hope of a prosperous, stable and democratic future. Elections will be held under a system of proportional representation. To broaden the government base even more, the Prime Minister will be required to consult with the opposition on such matters as key appointments in public service and the judiciary. Guyana, as the new nation will call...
Power is no more than the capability for achievement, it does not exist on its own. If Mayor Lindsay can employ his power to run the city as a modern-minded chief executive and not merely as its complaint bureau and top politician, he may well stir pride and kindle civic interest among New Yorkers. If he succeeds, he will not only restore the glory that was New York but immensely enhance its national political standing...
Even so, Pearson has never been a good campaigner and has been unable to stir the voters with his quiet recital of accomplishments-just as Diefenbaker, a member of the old oratorical school, has failed to inflame the populace with a vitriolic attack on some ugly but fading scandals within Pearson's government. Outside of that, Diefenbaker's campaign pitch has been a promise to give almost everybody more and do it better. The latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 47% of the vote, Diefenbaker's Conservatives 30%, with the rest split among other parties or "undecided...
...godhead will raise him from the dead. Pizarro dreads but courts the great Inca's murder. If Atahuallpa is resurrected, might not Christ have been? Through the night, the old conquistador keeps watch over the slain god's body with desperate hope. When the Inca fails to stir, Pizarro lets out a strangled cry of "Cheat" over the corpse as if he had choked down a hemlock potion of love and loss...