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Barre must also confront the curious fatalism that has developed among the French about the prospect of a Socialist government with Communist members. It is an adventure that no longer frightens many of them. Even some businessmen who once recoiled in horror at the idea seem resigned to living with it. It is Barre's job to help Giscard convince Frenchmen otherwise, because so far they have not been impressed by Giscard alone...
While many of Mrs. Gandhi's Cow Belt gatherings have been thin and lethargic, rallies for the Janata (People's) Party-the first unified opposition to confront the Congress Party in a national election-have been packed with attentive crowds. The speakers generally echo the line of Jayaprakash Narayan, 74, the respected conscience of the opposition, who notes that this may be India's "last chance to vote for democracy." Opposition campaigners are careful to attack Mrs. Gandhi with ridicule and sarcasm rather than abuse. When supporters of Jagjivan Ram at one rally shouted "Death to Indira...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA), and is chaired by Peter Hardy. It was the SCAAS that organized the forum. The student committee's reasons for presenting the forum were two fold: first, to commemorate Malcolm X, and second, to highlight the similarities between the struggles which Malcolm confronted and those which confront Third World students, with a special emphasis on a particular fight here at Harvard--that of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...little naive," he said, on learning the bent of some of his friends. He argues that as soon as Verfassungsschutz realized that his relations with them were innocent, the agency should have pressured Interatom to rehire him. Traube is demanding a hearing at which he can confront Interior Minister Werner Maihofer, the man ultimately responsible for the bugging...
...matter what her faults or limitations as a self-created savior of the troubled American marriage, Marabel's books are significant as a kind of cartoon version of genuine problems that confront millions...