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...this dualistic state, the Foreign Minister, for example, is a figurehead. The true Foreign Minister is the party, whose foreign policy, insists Avtorkhanov, has not changed since Lenin's time. Coexistence, he adds, is no more than a tactical pause in the grand and unalterable plan to turn the world into a Communist state...
...figurehead proffered in the name of unity, Gengras is an outspoken progressive who wants to reform party and state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority...
...Thanarat's takeover as Premier. Partly in gratitude, partly to rally public support for his own rule, Sarit consciously set out to build up the image of the tall, spare King and his comely Queen. He soon found the maturing King to be far more than a complaisant figurehead. When the World Court awarded a frontier temple to Thailand's traditional enemy, Cambodia, Sarit was ready to refuse to hand it over. Bhumibol said the court's order would be obeyed...
Inspite of his seemingly obvious role as a Negro figurehead at Harvard, Epps insists that he is not "Dean of Negro students," but that he remains interested in their activities "because I know the pain one goes through upon encountering new, integrated situations." One of the "hang-ups" of Negro students at Harvard is that they suspect all whites of being anti-Negro. It is difficult to learn, Epps explains, that this is not usually true...
...necessary," cried Kabaka Yekka Party Leader Daudi Ocheng. "Once the constitution is broken, the rule of the jungle takes over." Actually, whether there was to be any dying appeared to be up to the four-battalion army. So far, its loyalty seemed badly split between Obote and the figurehead chief of state, Sir Edward ("Freddy") Mutesa, 42, who is the Kabaka, hereditary ruler of Buganda kingdom, most powerful of Uganda's four regions...