Word: amendment
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When the Whitten plan surfaced last summer, Attorney General John Mitchell passed the word that the Administration had no objection. HEW Secretary Robert Finch, though he had his doubts, remained silent. As a result, the House approved the amendment by a wide margin. By last week, as the measure reached the Senate floor, the Administration had changed its tune. With Finch declaring the Administration "unalterably opposed" and Mitchell quietly going along, Republican Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott moved to amend the amendment. As modified by Scott, the bill still prohibits HEW from taking any of the actions proscribed by Whitten...
...said I could serve as a kind of "rules committee." recommending procedures- such as limited debate time or restricted right to amend- for each issue that came before the Faculty...
...four-year terms. The tough, unsmiling general wanted to prevent the sort of legalized dictatorship that had prevailed under Syngman Rhee, who ruled for twelve years. Last week, Park came full circle. In a controversial referendum, 11.1 million South Koreans voted by an overwhelming 2-to-l margin to amend the constitution so that he might seek a third term in 1971. Since Park held power for two years before he was first elected in 1963, a third term would give him a total of 14 years in the Blue House, two more than Rhee served...
Riverbed Rallies. Last summer, when Park first announced his intention to amend the constitution, there were cries of "dictatorship," and Korea's volatile students took to the streets. Most of them supported the more liberal, urban-oriented New Democratic Party, and they feared that Park and his rural-based Democratic Republican Party were trying to perpetuate their control indefinitely. When Park sought approval from the National Assembly to hold a national referendum, the opposition New Democrats seized the speaker's rostrum in the red-carpeted Assembly chamber and refused to yield it through four days of 24-hour...
...series of votes on the anti-war resolution showed mainly how easily the Faculty can lose its legislative way. For some unexplained reason, the 268 votes that joined to amend the Moratorium resolution couldn't get together to call a recess-the obvious strategy for avoiding a formal vote. And when they finally faced a vote, the opponents seemed to have no ready plan for voting or abstaining...