The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis In girding for a constitutional struggle with the President over war powers, spending authority, administration security, headlines, prime time, and limelight, Congress...
...The terrible confrontation at Wounded Knee continues...
...And in a final moment of inspired reform the House decided to allow floor amendments to be festooned to tax and trade bills, assuring some stupendous salad days for the industrious lobbyists of Capitol Hill...
...Ali's jaw...
...Shortly thereafter House Democrats diluted the seniority system, while the House established a panel to mull over changes in committee structure...
...Throughout the entire month the nation thrilled to the Ellsberg Affair, presently being staged in Los Angeles...
...And in Chile the Marxist held its own and got a bit more...
...Warren Briggs, the noted Methodist cleric, has suggested that clinics be developed to guarantee "the right to commit suicide in dignity" - incidentally, this somewhat obscure right had heretofore reposed unknown even to the Warren Court...
...Muhammad Ali was beaten in a professional prize fight with Ken Norton - as fate would have it, Mr...
...On the evening of March 10 the Governor of Bermuda and his pet Great Dane mysteriously passed away, and on that same day President Nixon said he would ask Congress for mandatory life sentences for drug entrepreneurs having prior convictions...
...Rudy Mortgarten, a seventy-year-old hermit, has been found living in New York's Central Park...
...On March 7 the House decided to reform committee meetings by opening them to the public during markup sessions, a measure the Senate had earlier rejected...
...There were many elections during the month, the most important being held in France, Argentina, and progressive Chile where the rate of inflation was the world's highest last year...
...And on the last day of the month Mr...
...Liechtenstein again voted down women's suffrage, and back in the States the controversial Equal Rights Amendment gained one state's ratification only to lose that of another...
...The Continuing Crisis In girding for a constitutional struggle with the President over war powers, spending authority, administration security, headlines, prime time, and limelight, Congress mutilated itself...
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...In France the Gaullist-led coalition achieved a somewhat larger majority than expected...
...Norton broke the sententious Mr...
...John Lindsay, Lord Mayor of New York and lifetime opponent of public executions, has decided not to run for re-election...
...Later in the month the President asked Congress to revise the definition of legal insanity, making it easier for sane persons to kill people...
...And Mr...
...The rising zeal for reform also spread to San Francisco where, having been moved by the high incidence of indecorous suicides, Dr...
...A Peronist government triumphed in Argentina...
Vol. 6 • May 1973 • No. 8
