Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it will be either self-perpetuating or without strain. For one thing, there are healthy differences between the partners: the Christian Democrats are semiconservatives who favor free enterprise and firm ties to the West; the Social Democrats are liberals who favor some state control of the economy and call for a more open attitude toward the Eastern-bloc nations. For another, both parties agree that they will dissolve the coalition before the 1969 elections and fight it out at the polls in the usual manner. Since government by committee tends to pall on hyperactive politicians of the German sort...
...rank-and-file of his party opposed helping their old foes out of their dilemma. Furthermore, since preference polls showed the Socialists leading the Christian Democrats by a comfortable margin, there was a strong sentiment in the party to ride out the crisis until Erhard would be forced to call new national elections; then, possibly, the Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige a new start. Wehner...
Dean Ford said yesterday that he had received no requests for a special meeting, but that he would wait at least another day before making a specific recommendation to President Pusey. The president is the only person with the authority to call a special meeting...
President Pusey should call a special meeting before the Commission ends its deliberation. A motion to remove the original resolution from the table could be debated--along with the real issues, the 2-S deferment and the problem of the Faculty taking a stand...
...year. Action on a civil rights bill is "very doubtful"; the Office of Economic Opportunity will be abolished and antipoverty spending, much reduced, will be assigned to the elderly departments. The Great Society will be put in deep freeze. It will be a time of consolidation -- Ford prefers to call it "constructive conservatism"; he likes the sound...