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Close-Up! (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A special documentary, "The Vatican," looks at Easter Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica...
Ordinarily, the Easter season is a time for the members of the U.S. Congress to declare a recess, go back home, mingle with the voters, and talk about their legislative record so far. This year they will go home, but they will not have much to talk about: the 88th Congress in its second session is perhaps the do-nothingest in history...
...Administration's programs? Truth is, a lot of congressional Democrats are no more enthusiastic than Republicans about those programs. For example, at a White House meeting Democratic leaders were urged to bring the youth employment bill to a floor vote-if only as something to put in the Easter basket. The leaders demurred, arguing that they could not count on their party's rank and file to vote favorably. A defeat now, they insisted, would make everything even tougher for the Administration later...
...three-week-old son: "The finest boy I ever saw. Look at his fists; he sure got them from me." Will the tyke go into the ring? "I wouldn't try to stop him." declared Ingemar in Stockholm. Of course, he would have to be christened first, on Easter Sunday, but Jens Patrik Johansson already looked like a comer...
Administration leaders have been pressing for a committee vote on the Service Corps bill before Congress takes its Easter recess in early April. But the committee, which held two months of hearing on the Youth Corps bill, is unlikely to be more hurried about the more controversial Service Corps proposal...