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...amendment which will guide the selection of the new vice president was first proposed by Senator Birch Bayh Jr. (D-Ind.) in December 1963, less than a month after the Kennedy assassination. The two men next in line to succeed Johnson, who had been stricken with a heart attack while majority leader in the Senate, were John McCormack and Carl Hayden, both of whom were over 80 years old at the time...
...rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody -- the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast...
...disease, health officials in several countries began demanding that travelers returning from Italy show certificates of immunization against cholera. That action apparently is not enough to halt the march of the disease. Scattered cases have already been reported in Sweden, Britain, France and West Germany. The majority of those stricken in Northern European countries have not even been to Italy. Most appeared to have picked up the disease in North Africa...
...quake was doubly disastrous because it came on the heels of the most damaging floods the country had seen in 30 years. President Luis Echeverría, who had toured flooded areas in Central Mexico only two days before the quake, visited the stricken villages to take charge of the relief work. Reconstruction, however, may have to be delayed. At week's end, torrential rains had resumed, threatening to topple buildings already weakened by the quake...
...time for this year's planting. Others ate their seeds to survive." In Mali alone, the government reports that 250,000 nomads have lost all their animals down to the last goat. For the nomads, that means they have lost everything. Taken as a whole, the six stricken nations may lose 60% of their cattle and 50% of their grain harvests this year...