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...Club. They elected 299 of their number to form a new National Assembly, which will approve a new constitution and oversee new national elections. The Assembly's members represent the most democratic political cross section in the country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side. The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel, smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building next to the shiny Mercedes...
...chief executive officer of the Gateway National Bank of St. Louis. A study by the Conference Board, a nonprofit research organization, found that in 1971 minority banks loaned 40% as much money in their communities as white banks did, even though the minority banks' assets equaled less than one-tenth of 1% of the white banks' wealth...
Jewett also cited the fact that scores for the lower one-tenth of the freshman class were consistently higher than last year's, indicating a rise in the overall strength of the class...
Correspondent Rauch, who was allowed to inspect the interior of the stadium last week, found no signs of any mass-execution sites. Some prisoners were lounging in the bleachers. But, Rauch noted, "there was not more than one-tenth of the people we had been told were in the stadium. When asked where the others were, the stadium commandant replied, 'Some prefer the sun, while others prefer the shade. Those you do not see prefer the shade...
Once a candidate reaches one-tenth of the vote, the remainder of his ballots are transferred to the marked second choices and so on. Sometimes there are 30 candidates and a voter has the option of marking his preference all the way of the last name on the ballot. Understanda bly, the counting of votes takes up the better part of a week or longer...