Word: forme
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Minority Government. The task of forming a government will go to Socialist Party Leader Mario Scares, 51, whom Eanes has promised to name Premier. Although the Socialists won only a 35% plurality in the spring parliamentary election, Scares plans to form a minority government rather than create a coalition with either the badly humiliated Communists-whom Eanes emphatically does not want in the government -or the parties to the right. He may be forced, however, to leaven a predominantly Socialist Cabinet with a few independents...
Whatever the makeup of the Cabinet, it will have difficulty upholding Portugal's new constitution, which calls for an advanced form of socialism with worker control of factories, state planning and expropriation of the country's principal means of production. The Popular Democrats have serious reservations about this constitution, and the Center Social Democrats actually voted against...
...Last week all possibility of such a ban ended when the Justices voted seven to two that capital punishment under certain conditions is still perfectly constitutional. Again, Stewart's was a critical voice as he said for the court: "We hold that the death penalty is not a form of punishment that may never be imposed, regardless of the circumstances of the offense, regardless of the character of the offender and regardless of the procedure followed in reaching the decision...
...second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute, and possibly arbitrary, veto over the decision of the physician and his patient." The court did indicate, however, that it might take a different view of a state law requiring some form of parental involvement short of a blanket veto...
...insect made its appearance on earth some 400 million years ago, and in the intervening time has become well equipped to survive. (In fact, the durable cockroach evolved into something very similar to its current unpleasant form some 320 million years ago and apparently saw little need for further improvement.) An insect has a strong exterior skeleton and seems disproportionately powerful in relation to its size (an ant can lift 50 times its own weight). Its capacity for flight (most but not all insects can fly), attained about 100 million years before the first flying reptiles or birds, enables...