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...morning, Panama's National Assembly met in its small, sweltering chamber and listened transfixed while a methodical clerk droned through long pages of sworn testimony. Most of the country's people, torn from sleep by the high drama, heard the evidence on their radios. When the clerk finished, Panamanians struggled to grasp an appalling accusation. According to the confessed triggerman, the highest plotter in last fortnight's race-track assassination of President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was none other than José Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and legally...
Before 8 in the morning, Vice President Ricardo (Dickie) Arias,* 42, had been sworn in, Panama's third President in 13 days. Although his first move was to name a tough brother of Chichi Remon to the all-important Ministry of Government and Justice, Dickie Arias faces dismaying political troubles. But his choice of sports, at least, was reassuring; a topflight golfer, he seldom goes to the races...
...took time out for an act of simple kindness. With his office full of Congressmen, job-seekers and admirers, Rayburn got an apologetic telephone call from Ohio's freshman Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley. Ashley's 87-year-old grandmother was in Washington to see young (32) Lud sworn in. For more than 40 years Sam Rayburn had been one of her political heroes, and she wanted to meet him. Said Sam: "Delighted. Bring her down." He talked to the old lady for nearly half an hour. When the chat was over, Rayburn had won the unswerving loyalty...
Even a majority, however, could support unfair investigations, and other rules are needed to give witnesses themselves courtroom safeguards. Under the proposed rules, persons mentioned unfavorably in hearings would have a chance to enter sworn testimony in their own defense. Witnesses could also have active counsels with the right of objecting to questions and supporting these objections with arguments. Finally, and perhaps most important, witnesses would have twenty-four hours advance notice of the subject of the questions to be asked...
...Goody") Knight, who glows under the bright lights, arranged to be sworn in facing the cameras in the state's first televised inaugural ceremony. He also faced a lot of problems : California is running into the red at the rate of $7,000,000 a month, might require more taxes to finance its forthcoming record $1.5 billion budget. California farmers need irrigation water and Los Angeles needs fresh...