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...clearest sign of a troubled American ethic - perhaps even more than any aggressive Washington foreign policy. In recent polls, more than 60% of West Europeans say they oppose the death penalty, compared to less than one-fourth of Americans. Letter-writing campaigns against the death penalty are constant; Parlia-ment declarations denouncing the punishment frequent. Just down the road in Rome, the Colosseum is regularly illuminated to honor death-penalty victims, and before Summers, Italy had twice allowed men executed in the U.S. to be buried in its soil. Says Caterina Calderoni, a Milan music teacher who'd campaigned...
...race." In the past few weeks, he has been condemned and cursed from the Zambezi to the Niger and beyond, and the Organization of African Unity has even threatened to throw out Malawi as long as he is there. Banda is unimpressed. Last week he went before his Parlia ment to answer his critics with a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats...
...three figures from the past, like Soviet Russia's other 144 million registered voters, were casting their ballots for the unopposed candidates to the 1,517-member Supreme Soviet (Parlia ment). The candidates were prechosen by the Communist Party - and, it would seem, by the voters. Everybody won, and by a margin that added up to a 99.8% endorsement for the government of Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin...
...looking forward to this fight," said Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week. "I'm almost spoiling for it." He did not have long to spoil. Next day, as Parlia ment reassembled, shouting, leaping Tory backbenchers cheered lustily while the newly elected member for Kinross took his oath as an M.P. and moved into his place for the first time on the government's front bench. Pulling out a small red and gold ballpoint pen, Douglas-Home hunched down in his seat and scribbled furiously on slips of paper for the next 42 minutes while Labor Party Leader Harold...
Pasta & Fiats. As the waves of criticism rolled over him, De Gaulle loftily dismissed suggestions that his proposals might break up the entire Common Market scheme. "Nobody will quit the Common Market," he sniffed at a reception for members of the French Parlia ment. "Italy, for example. We send her iron and coal, and we buy her pasta and Fiats. She's very happy." As for Britain, he snapped contemptuously, "Britain has given back to America what atomic force she had. She could just as well have turned it over to Europe. Well, she's chosen...