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...This law has become a law of oppression," says Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. With support from leftists and independent deputies, Mitterrand hopes to persuade the National Assembly to repeal it. His chances are only fair, and meantime Frenchmen must watch themselves. Aimed at ever more ridiculous targets, the 87-year-old law was recently invoked to arrest a diner at a provincial bistro for drawing a caricature of De Gaulle on a tablecloth, an amateur ceramist for portraving him on an ashtray, a drunk for criticizing him in a bar, and an unsuspecting man in the street...
...been quietly discussing the shutdown of the London gold pool and the move to the split-price system since British devaluation. Italy and Belgium, restive at the growing drain on their reserves, remained in the pool only at U.S. prodding. Timing the switch presented delicate problems. By waiting for repeal of a 1945 law requiring a 25% gold backing for the currency, the U.S. could muster another $10.4 billion of gold for the defense of the dollar abroad. By discomfitingly small margins, the measure squeaked through Congress just in time. Last week, as the scratch of President Johnson...
...York last year, CEF lost an expensive battle to repeal the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits state aid to parochial schools; elsewhere, it has recorded several victories for its cause. CEF pressure was behind recent laws passed by half a dozen states permitting parochial school students to be transported in public school buses. In Ohio and Michigan, the organization helped push through legislation supplying auxiliary services to parochial schools, such as counselors and specialized teachers, at a total annual cost of approximately $ 15 million. In Rhode Island and Michigan, it is now campaigning for tuition grants from states...
...school districts. In 1960 he stressed the importance of a bold fiscal policy to President-elect Kennedy but two years later fought the Kennedy tax cut. Last spring, drawing on his experience in 1956 as chairman of an investigation of campaign financing, he led the liberals' struggle to repeal the Long Campaign Financing Act. But now he and Sen. Long are writing a bill with a new approach to funding campaigns...
...quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel" in the Justice Department to speak up in court for that perpetual patsy, the consumer. "Do you foresee the repeal of Barnum's law?"* a newsman asked as Ramsey Clark glowingly outlined this point. Smiled Clark: "You never can tell...