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...appointments to civil and military posts. He is empowered to dissolve Parliament after "consultation" with, and without necessarily getting the consent of, the Premier. If the President decides that a national emergency exists, he may after consultations assume dictatorial powers by simple proclamation; at any time he can suppress political parties that he considers opposed to the "principles of national sovereignty and of democracy." He is elected to his seven-year term not by direct vote of the nation, but by an electoral college that favors rural and conservative regional interests...
...techniques and tortures of brainwashing are only one aspect of the Communists' unremitting war upon the Roman Catholic Church in China. Each week Rome learns new details of the Reds' increasingly successful drive, not to suppress but to capture the church in what is fast becoming one of the major schisms in Catholic history...
...every haughty tyrant-Chamoun, [Premier] Sami Solh, Malik, Hussein"): "You are a sick man, Eisenhower. You are sick and cannot stay long. You are weak, Eisenhower ... You cannot justify the landing of your army on hallowed Lebanese soil. You cannot justify your mad attitude towards summit talks. You cannot suppress the Lebanese revolution with your Sixth Fleet, which has polluted our waters. No, no, no, accursed imperialism ! ... Eisenhower, you aged imperialist...
...from Lourdes merchants, "there is absolutely no collusion between the bishop and the city." (The church's only income from the shrine: $500,000 yearly from Grotto collection boxes and sale of religious books, all used to maintain the buildings.) As for the pious objects, "we cannot suppress bad taste," said Father Gabel. "But we will advise against them, trusting that Lourdes businessmen, like film producers in America, will see the error of their ways...
...kind of lottery that deals the fertilized egg half a set of chromosomes from each parent, like cards dealt out to players in a two-handed card game. When maternal and paternal chromosomes are slightly different, which is generally the case, their dominant genes (units of heredity) suppress recessive genes, as Mendel's red-flowered peas suppressed white-floweredness. Each recessive gene is still riding its chromosome, and biding its time in obscurity. It can assert itself only when the corresponding gene from the other parent is also recessive. It may have to wait for many generations...