Word: cabinets
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...term Vice President, said he, and it could not be applied to any other job. Ike did not elaborate, but the White House is hard at work on a plan that would establish two "assistants to the President" in appointive posts subject to Senate confirmation, ranking at least with Cabinet members. One would specialize in foreign affairs, the other in domestic affairs. In helping the President with day-to-day affairs, they would be more important than the Vice President, who is constitutionally required only to preside over the Senate. Where assistants now shield Ike through persuasion or toughness...
...name of the one and only God." announced the revival of the 1945 revolutionary constitution. His fiat swept out of office the 17th government to rule Indonesia in 14 years, dissolved the Constituent Assembly, emasculated some 40-odd political parties and caused the resignation of the 27-man Cabinet of his loyal ally, Premier Djuanda...
...Sukarno himself is less a strongman than a symbol. He must rule in partnership, and only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not a single post went to a Communist or a fellow traveler. Able ex-Premier Djuanda was named First Minister and Finance Minister. The army got two plums: the important Ministry of Security and Defense went to Army Commander Lieut. General A. Haris Nasution and the Production Ministry to Colonel Suprajogi...
Sukarno, perhaps the best phrasemaker in Southeast Asia, dubbed his Cabinet the "Cabinet Kerdja-the Cabinet of Work." Its program, he added, is "a very simple one: to provide food and clothing for the people in the shortest possible time, to establish security, and to continue the struggle against economic and political imperialism." This last item was a flag-waving attempt to reawaken the nationalistic fervor of 1945 by intimating that an attempt would be made to wrest West Irian (Western New Guinea) away from the Dutch. If words alone could save the staggering nation of Indonesia, Sukarno would...
...Egypt itself, Nasser long ago eliminated old-line political parties. But in his northern province of Syria, which he took over in 1958, there were still the powerful Baath socialists, who, though nominally outlawed like all parties, have been rewarded with five of 16 seats in the Syrian regional Cabinet for helping to put over the merger of the two countries. Last week, between the maneuverings of Nasser and the ganging up of landowners, businessmen and Moslem elders, who banded together in a conservative front, the Baath socialists lost control of Syria. Over both provinces Gamal Abdel Nasser reigned supreme...