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...seats. Disappointed at the loss of their old image as a tough, independent-minded party, the Socialists in Bonn have become in creasingly restless of late in their alliance with the Christian Democrats. One result is that some important legislation, including a plan for voting reform that would weaken the National Democrats, has been unable to attract the firm support it needs to pass...
...Army's new Chief of Staff. Did that signal a shift in the Administration's conduct of the war? Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy, was off to Paris as the new U.S. Ambassador to France. Did that signify a move to weaken the Kennedy forces, a new American approach to the intractable Charles de Gaulle, a fresh approach to the war on poverty, or all of them? Wilbur J. Cohen, a Washington veteran dating back to the early days of the New Deal, was becoming the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...weeks ago to present the Vietnamese embassy with an anti-war statement signed by him and 15 fellow Vietnamese studying in the United States. It was a dangerous action--Long was defying a 1965 Vietnamese law demanding execution or long-term jailing for saying or doing anything which might "weaken the nation's anti-Communist effort...
Insurance Policy. Dirksen, for all his gifts of legerdemain, found himself without a solid two-thirds majority for cloture. Therefore he and his son-in-law, Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker, sought to mollify the conservatives by introducing new amendments, this time to weaken the open-housing section. Together, their amendments would exclude from the ban on dis crimination all single-family, owner-occupied housing-potentially 30 million units...
Student may resent the CEP's caution in not eliminating the requirement altogether, but that was never a live possibility. Ending the requirement would significantly weaken the teaching wing of language departments' graduate programs. Also Dean Ford and others feel that it is vital for Harvard to have a statement supporting the value of language study built into the structure of its curriculum...