Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much maneuvering between various military factions, the country is politically and economically weary. Following the fall of Socialist Premier Mario Scares' minority regime in mid-1978, the squabbling factions in the National Assembly were unable to agree on a new government. So last summer Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes, called an election in hope that a "coherent" left-of-center government would emerge. It was not to be. Last week, when a record 87.5% of the electorate went to the polls, the vote instead went narrowly to a new center-right coalition called...
...mayor had been arrested four weeks ago, following the leak of a private conversation between Shaka'a and General Danny Matt, Israeli military administrator of the occupied territories. Despite the mayor's denials that he had expressed any approval of Palestinian terrorist acts, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman ordered him deported to Jordan; the Cabinet unanimously affirmed the decree...
...three-member tribunal appointed by Brigadier General Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli military commander for the West Bank, then reviewed the case; last week it was announced that Shak'a's deportation order had been annulled. Among the "many considerations" involved in the turnabout, General Ben-Eliezer explained, were "the welfare of the city of Nablus and the welfare of Mr. Shaka'a's family." He might have added that the well-being of Begin's embattled government had also been a factor. In fact, nobody seemed happier with Ben-Eliezer's decision than...
...Senate. Or that she once flamboyantly hired a plane to drag a MORMONS FOR ERA pennant over Salt Lake City during a Mormon Church meeting. It claims that she had accused the leadership of "savage misogyny." She explains that the phrase was directed only at Mormon culture in general. A fifth-generation Latter-day Saint, she intends to appeal Willis' punishment to higher church authorities. But, she said, "the church has given me a lot of joy in my life. You don't abandon a good friend just because he does something unethical...
That was the period when Townshend started to push. "I thought we had to do something grand, almost daft ... and possibly pompous." That was Tommy, and The Who finally had what it was after: a general audience success to match its reputation among rock fans...