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Prime Minister George Papandreou's lure for leftist support in last February's national elections was a pledge to repeal anti-Communist legislation en acted between 1946 and 1949 when Communist guerrillas tried to seize power. Sure enough, Papandreou's Cen ter Union, having garnered 173 seats in Greece's 300-member Parliament, rammed through a bill to free most Communist prisoners convicted of sedition and murder, abolish political deportations, and deprive the police of power to withhold work permits on political grounds...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. Goldwater's vote against the civil rights bill set this up as the key issue. If there is to be a major platform battle, Laird believes that it will be between Goldwater delegates who insist that the party advocate repeal of parts of the new bill and moderates who may propose much tougher measures than are included in the bill. Already, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, the Scranton spokesman on the Platform Committee, has urged a flat statement that the party considers the bill constitutional, which would go directly against Goldwater's declaration...
...boost Social Security cash benefits by roughly 5%. Maximum family benefit would be increased gradually to $300 a month, and individual benefit would go up to $143, the rise financed by a slightly higher tax on employers and employees. >Voted, 77 to 2, in a lively Senate session, to repeal the 10% federal excise taxes on a vast variety of consumer items ranging from cosmetics, handbags and luggage to mechanical pencils and pingpong balls. > Overrode, in a House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, the decade-old dictatorship of Chairman Otto Passman, a Louisiana Democrat whose only particular claim to fame...
Kennedy has been one of the church leaders most active in battling the campaign to repeal a state fair-housing...
...better chance in the fall, Douglas-Home hopes to heal the Tory party's rifts, notably about the government's recent repeal of "resale price maintenance," a system of manufacturer-pegged retail prices like U.S. "fair trade" laws. And he is also counting on the additional time to put himself to the electorate...