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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence upset brings down Clark's Tory government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Casual Joe Takes a Fall | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

When Speaker James Jerome ordered the "vote on division" at 9:50 p.m., the packed public gallery in Canada's House of Commons stirred with excitement. The balloting took only eleven minutes. When it was over, the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, just 6½ months in office, had been stunningly upset. By a vote of 139 to 133, the Tories went down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Casual Joe Takes a Fall | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...much as some of our letter writers do, I don't know why I would buy it." The paper favors abortion on demand, gun control and SALT II. It strongly supports Governor Ray, a moderate Republican, and pushed hard last year for the re-election of Senator Dick Clark, a liberal Democrat. The day after Clark was defeated, the Register published an editorial entitled "The Best Man Lost." Says Publisher David Kruidenier, grandson of Gardner Cowles Sr.: "I now regret it. We sounded like poor losers and were second-guessing the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Truth About Iowa | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

LIBERTY BOWL: Tulane (9-2) vs. Penn State (7-4)--Tulane stands as a sleeper, but Bruce Clark is too big. Penn State 14, Tulane...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Bowling for Scholars | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Crimson number one man George Bell started the Harvard charge by easily defeating Army's Scott Snook in four games. Number five man Geordie Lemmon, seventh-ranked Clark Bain and nine man John Dinneen all won handily to make...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Crimson Racquetmen Down Army, 6-3; Bell, Somers Lead Harvard Attack | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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