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...face a long Canadian winter. There is little likelihood that Conservative Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield, who lost so narrowly last time, will give him a breather. The trip to China will not solve Trudeau's troubles at home. Inflation (especially in food prices)-along with unemployment and fractious Quebec-provides Stanfield with missiles to try to pierce Trudeau's new image...
...people trooped by the millions to cast their votes," marveled Manila's Daily Express. "They had an enthusiasm that had not been seen in previous elections." Indeed, the 91% support for a referendum that gives President Ferdinand Marcos nearly unlimited power was almost miraculous in the fractious Philippines. Or it would have been, except for the fact that 1) the penalty for not voting was up to six months in prison; 2) most people were afraid that if they voted no they would go to jail; and 3) a high government official, with rare if somewhat cynical candor, admitted...
Violence erupted only a day after the badgered President spoke, urging peace between the fractious Perónistas who had turned Juan Perón's homecoming two weeks ago into a bloodbath, leaving 34 dead and 342 wounded. In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, eleven people, including a foreign businessman, have been kidnaped, bringing the total number held by terrorists to 17. Ransom demands, meanwhile, have soared to an astronomical $17 million...
Hardly anyone expected that Héctor Cámpora, the mild-mannered ex-dentist hand-picked by Juan Perón as his movement's candidate for President, would easily unite the fractious Argentines. Few, though, expected that potentially explosive trouble would break out on the day of Cámpora's inauguration as the country's first elected chief of state since...
...Israelis have long been known as one of the world's more fractious peoples. The Knesset is a turbulent forum for their divisions, as are their newspapers, despite official censorship of anything involving "state security." Moreover, Orthodox Jews, who represent about 25% of the population, are often pitted against their secular-minded countrymen in both matters of law and face-to-face encounters. Regardless of whether or not he is a believer, in matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem...