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Drenched. The total mood seemed best reflected by Oregon's Republican secretary of state Mark Hatfield, a candidate for Governor in a onetime Republican stronghold that the Democrats have thoroughly taken over. Hatfield wrote a stinging letter to the President, afterward announced the theme of his complaint. "I would not continue in office as assistant or member of an administration a person whose imprudence creates doubt as to the impartiality of his responsibilities. I am not concerned about political expediency. What I am interested in is the question of ethics involved. I have urged the President to make...
Daylight Hooligans. While the Sinhalese Premier hesitated, the rioters took over. In the Tamil stronghold of northern Ceylon, crowds attacked government-owned buses that were marked with Sinhalese letters. In response, Sinhalese mobs erupted in the streets of Colombo, obliterating all Tamil lettering on store fronts and signboards. Premier Bandaranaike abjectly reversed himself again and came out once more for Sinhalese as the national language. Disorders swept the country; railway tracks were torn up, telephone and telegraph wires cut. Cities and towns became the scene of communal war. In Colombo 10,000 terrified Tamils were herded into protective camps...
Light & Air. Redheaded young Father Egan had graduated from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kans. and earned an M.A. in sociology at the University of Notre Dame; he was determined to let some fresh air and light into the academic stronghold of St. Bernard. First, he banded together with a group of younger priests, some of whom he had known in prep school. One of these, Irish-born Father Malachy Shanaghan, who is now head of St. Bernard's English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect...
From his trenched and barricaded stronghold in Beirut's Moslem quarter, ex-Premier Saeb Salam, a rebel in a yellow sport shirt, asserted that his followers were only Lebanese waging a Lebanese feud against a ''tyrant" President who planned to use the two-thirds parliamentary majority he won in last year's "rigged" elections to change the constitution so that he could stand for re-election when his six-year term expires in September...
...little man's big ambition: at 50, to become Premier of Italy. In pursuit of his dream, Fanfani popped up last week on the cobblestones of Palermo, in the sunny piazzas of a dozen southern farm towns, in the shadows of Milan's cathedral, in the monarchist stronghold of Naples. Since campaign's start he had delivered 140 speeches, talked in melodious tones, with arms aflail, for more than 200 hours to crowds ranging from a few hundred to more than...