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Since guns have clearly failed to quell the rebellion, the Portuguese government last week tried words: it announced the repeal of the native statute which divided the population of the colonies in Africa into "civilized" (i.e., Europeans and the few educated natives) and "noncivilized" categories. From now on, all inhabitants of the colonies will be granted Portuguese citizenship "without distinction of race, religion or culture...
...volunteer movement, named Maternité Heureuse (Happy Motherhood), shoot up overnight into a major national organization, the French Movement for Family Planning. In Paris 15 physicians are already giving advice on contraception to their private patients. Even the staid French Association of Women Doctors has come around to demanding repeal...
...most of them had staff cartoonists. They were predominantly men of strong convictions who drew with a brutal vigor that most of today's newspapers would hesitate to print. The best of them-the New York World's Rollin Kirby, whose "Mr. Dry" hastened Prohibition's repeal; the Post-Dispatch's corrosive Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; the Baltimore Sun's hard-hitting Edmund Duffy; J. N. (Ding) Darling of the Des Moines Register and the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Henry (Art) Young of Chicago's old Inter-Ocean, a bitter commentator on social injustice...
...final lurch toward solvency, Alpert persuaded the Governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to push through tax reductions totaling $6,000,000 on New Haven property. He hoped to save another $6,000,000 by economies in labor and management and by repeal of the 10% federal excise tax. But the state tax reductions did not go into effect until a fortnight ago, the federal tax was not repealed, and the labor-management savings never came about...
FEDERAL SPENDING : Goldwater has urged that the Government reduce its spending by 10% each year, withdrawing from virtually all welfare fields. He disapproves of social security as an interference in the private lives of U.S. citizens; but rather than repeal the program, he wants it made voluntary instead of compulsory. In the Senate he has voted four times (in 1958, '59, '60 and '61) against depressed-area bills, has strongly opposed medical care for the aged...