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...Young Dems' resolution condemned "any efforts to silence unpopular views or demonstrations through threat, intimidation... or cries of treason...
Tightening the Grip. As the impact of the elections sank in, the military mutterings grew so loud that President Castello Branco was forced into a move that would only make his government even more unpopular. In return for not interfering with the results, the stern linha dura (hard line) officers won the promise that Castello Branco would send new proposals to Congress tightening the revolution's hold on the country through military courts and police. Most important, the military wants to change next year's presidential elections from direct balloting by the people to indirect balloting by Congress...
Second, the elections suggest that if a government-backed candidate runs against an opposition candidate for the presidency in 1966, the government candidate will lose. The gubernatorial elections did not show that the government was highly unpopular, nor did they show that the extreme left was highly popular; they did show that a left-of-center coalition has more popular support than the government...
...sooner did Pearson drop his hints than the old Conservative war horse made a surprisingly successful five-day tour of Quebec's rural eastern outbacks, pumping hands, signing autographs, trying out his fractured French, touring small stores and factories. Just before the last election, Diefenbaker was so unpopular in Quebec that there was real question whether he would be safe on a campaign swing through French Canada. But tempers cool, and now 1,200 citizens turned up in Ste. Perpétue (pop. 1,160) to cheer his campaign promises: abolition of the 11% sales tax on farm machinery...
Repeal of 14(b) was the most unpopular proposal that the President had sent up to Capitol Hill. And for that very reason, the Administration and House leaders were determined that it would be rammed through-allowing little time for questions to be asked or for amendments to be proposed. For the first time, a rule adopted last January by the House Democratic majority was invoked; it enabled the House, by a simple majority vote, to bring the bill to the floor before debate limitations were set by the conservative Rules Committee...