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Chile's imaginative new President Eduardo Frei may not be able to get a single key bill through his lame-duck Congress, but he has certainly stirred the country's youth to unaccustomed activities. To help make good his election promise of "no child without a school," Frei has recruited an unpaid hammer-and-nail corps of 1,500 university students to build schools in out-of-the-way places that have rarely seen a government mission of any kind. Local communities provide building materials, plus food and lodging for the student workers. The students expect to complete...
Zero for Three. While he received the greatest endorsement ever given a Chilean President (55% of the vote), Frei faced a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats held only 33 of 192 seats. With new elections coming up March 7, the Congressmen have been arguing and doodling away their time, have refused even to hear government ministers in defense of some key bills...
Unquestionably, the main issue of such an election would be the constitutional one. Thus the possibility arises of a Council being elected to abolish itself, or of a lame duck council dissolving the posts its successors were to fill...
...Intent on blunting the new majority's power, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller quickly summoned a special session of the old legislature, forced through a reapportionment bill favoring Republicans and two measures that put $617 million of the state's bond reserves out of Democratic reach. Said Lame Duck Rochester Republican Assemblyman Eugene Goddard: "It's a common practice when you're about to be taken over by the Huns to change the locks on the doors...
...decision does not automatically end local prosecution of sit-in cases; civil rights lawyers may have to seek dismissal in specific cases. Yet it does mean that a great variety of civil rights advocates-ranging from Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 73-year-old mother of Massachusetts' lame-duck Governor, to Mardon Walker, a 19-year-old daughter of a white Navy captain, no longer need fear confinement. Said a relieved Miss Walker in New London, Conn., where she is a student at Connecticut College: "I somehow felt that I would never have to serve 18 months in jail for trying...