Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a majority of New Yorkers now tell pollsters that they disapprove of the mayor's performance, but that only 51% of them feel that way. Unpopularity is, after all, an occupational hazard of New York mayors; even Lindsay's bland predecessor, Robert Wagner, a Democrat in a city with a 7-to-2 Democratic registration edge, had 53% of the voters against him, according to a poll taken toward the end of his third term. The high hopes built up by a fresh new face made a letdown inevitable. Lindsay was, says Wagner, "the greatest mayor...
...involves far more than a mere matter of majorities. As Germans see it, it is an attempt to bring renewal to German national life and to reconcile many of the old antagonisms, both political and religious, that have segmented it. Its cast confirms the effort. Kurt Kiesinger, a Christian Democrat, is a onetime member of the Nazi Party?a fact on which the world's press has concentrated almost singlemindedly. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, 52, the Social Democrat who came into the government as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was a wartime refugee from the Nazis and a member...
...plotters, the opportunity to pull the rug out from under Erhard came in late October, when he tried to persuade the Free Democrat members of his coalition Cabinet to go along with the tax increase required to balance next year's budget. In the end, stung by accounts that they were caving in to Erhard, the Free Democrats chose to save face by quitting the Cabinet and taking their 49 seats in the Bundestag along with them. Erhard was thus left with West Germany's first minority government. His position was untenable; but who would succeed...
...governments, the grand coalition is a totally new departure for West Germany. It naturally raised some apprehensions, both in Germany and abroad, about the fate of democracy without an effective parliamentary opposition. The burden of scrutinizing the government's actions will fall on the narrow shoulders of the Free Democrat delegation...
...Court in recent years. "They are recognizing the laws as they originally were intended to be," he explained. Now Junior will be able to make a few decisions of his own. California's outgoing Governor Pat Brown, an old family friend, has named Earl, a lawyer and registered Democrat, as a Sacramento municipal-court judge...