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...significant step toward the economic integration of Asia was taken in Tokyo last Thursday, as the Asian Development Bank held its inaugural meeting. More than 500 delegates from 32 countries and nine international agen cies, including financial experts, ranking world bankers and top-level govern ment officials such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, unanimously elected Japan's Takeshi Watanabe, 60, president for a five-year term. At the same time, they also agreed to admit Indonesia and Switzerland as the bank's 31st and 32nd members...
...Council of the Realm (heretofore purely decorative), grant wider representation to the Cortes and -most important-limit the power of the head of state in the transition period to a return to constitutional monarchy. Said one Hispanologist: "The old laws were made to give Franco the means to govern. This one gives him the way to phase...
Love alone does not govern the play, for it is also a drama about passion as a prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes...
...dull incentives for innovations." Despite the indictment, Congress did not see fit to give the new department the powers it needs. With 95,000 employees and a $6.2 billion-a-year-budget, DOT (as it seems destined to be called) starts life as the fourth-largest department in the Government, bringing together 32 scattered federal agencies, from the Bureau of Public Roads and the Federal Aviation Agency to the Alaska Railroad and the Great Lakes Pilotage Administration. Beset by myriad pressures, Congress stripped the twelfth Cabinet-level department of many logical functions, including control of the heavily subsidized maritime industry...
...question of Reagan's lack of experience is, of course, a vital one. If he is elected, he will at least go to Sacramento without obligations to the bosses and backers who hagride most professional politicians. He will have to show that a citizen-Governor can govern. That is not an impossible challenge. As Nixon said last week of Reagan and Michigan's G.O.P. Governor George Romney: "They are new. And they project the mystique of the future rather than the past...