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Then there was the private bill for Mrs. Camilla Hester of Foley, Ala. She is a widow who has been unjustly denied a federal pension because of legal complexities. The bill contained a couple of quirks that would establish bad pension precedents. The President felt compelled to reject it with his 61st veto. Mrs. Hester, who has been leaning toward Ford in this campaign, allowed as how she was "disappointed." She seemed understanding. But who knows how Mrs. Hester and her family will vote...
...Harvard China expert said yesterday he believes the recent dispute between Chiang Ching, Mao Tse Tung's widow, and the Politburo, the elite of the Central Committee, centered on control of the late chairman's security force and the right to edit his works...
...United Press International reported last night that the New China News Agency in Peking said Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ching and "key radical elements" had been "liquidated." UPI report stated that it was unclear whether the China report meant the radicals had been killed...
Isolated Actions. Both groups staged damaging raids-as did right-wing terrorists-against the inept regime of Perón's widow and successor, Isabel, 45. When Videla led an army coup that deposed Mrs. Perón (she remains under luxurious house arrest in the lake district), he promised that the government would exercise a "monopoly of force." In July the army cornered and killed ERP Leader Mario Santucho and two of his top aides. Last month government forces trapped the national political secretariat of the Montoneros; five of them were shot to death, and four others captured...
...tend to follow a certain succession. The first wife gets to bear the babies. The next wife or two come in on the money and the fame. The poor last wife is left to serve as practical nurse to the Great Man's aches and pains and, as widow, play keeper to his flame...