Word: electable
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...International Brotherhood of Teamsters meets next week in Las Vegas, where many of the casinos have been financed in part by loans from the pension funds of the union's 2 million members. The principal duty of the delegates will be to elect interim President Roy L. Williams, 66, to a full five-year term, and some will do so without much enthusiasm. The new head of the Teamsters, which has had trouble with the Justice Department for 25 years, has been indicted three times-in 1962, 1972 and 1974-on federal charges of embezzlement and records falsification...
...each of more than 70 such proceedings since 1967, Grigson has testified that the defendant was a "sociopath" who was dangerous to society, and every time, with a single exception, the jury has unanimously voted for the ultimate penalty: in Texas, death by injection. Says Peter Lesser, president-elect of the Dallas County Criminal Bar Association: "He is a witch doctor. They call him Dr. Death for a reason...
Mitterrand must share credit for his victory with some of the brightest and most dedicated men in French political life. The President-elect has an inner circle of politicians and intellectuals who are not only strong personalities but also have power bases and political clout of their...
Obviously a center-right majority elected on that platform would make it impossible for Mitterrand to put through his economic and social reforms. The President-elect has said that if he did not get a leftist majority, he would try to govern with whatever majority did emerge from the elections. But his room for maneuver would be severely limited. If he attempted to form a coalition with the center, for example, he would almost surely arouse the hostility or outright opposition of the Communists...
Franco-Soviet Relations. Mitterrand is likely to take a harder line toward the Soviet Union than Giscard-despite his relationship with Moscow's most loyal European Communist Party. The President-elect strongly denounced the Afghanistan invasion and, as one senior British diplomat observed, "has no illusions about Soviet motivations and intentions." Pravda, which praised Giscard's commitment to detente and was openly rooting for him in the election, lamented last week that the Socialist leader would probably adopt the " 'tough positions' of the Western side...