Word: gough
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...Hawke spent the next 17 years commanding attention and consolidating political power indirectly: as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U.) from 1970 to 1980, as president of the Labor Party (1973-78), and as the hand-picked protégé of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. By the time he joined Parliament in 1980, Hawke was already Australia's most popular public figure. His bid for leadership seemed only a matter of time...
...write as the former Governor-General of Australia who in November 1975 terminated the commission of Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister of Australia and thereby dismissed his government. You discussed that event in your issue of Dec. 13. Your article stated that since the dismissal, allegations have surfaced that "the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall." You referred to a recent piece in Foreign Policy magazine in which a Professor James A. Nathan stated that "a plausible case is being developed that CIA officials may have also done in Australia what they managed to achieve in Iran...
...American-Australian relations [Dec. 13]. However, TIME'S insinuation that I draw upon whispers and rumors (and only left-wing ones at that) rather than normal scholarly sources is unfair. The question of U.S. improprieties in Australian politics was raised not by me but by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and by highly placed Labor Party officials. The case substantiating CIA involvement in the downfall of the Whitlam government can be found in books, police reports, TV documentaries and hundreds of newspapers ranging across the political spectrum. This evidence strongly suggests that the CIA was not a passive witness...
...deed was done so swiftly and so unexpectedly that rumors still linger in Australia about what really happened. From the day in November 1975 when Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the leftist Labor Party and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, allegations have surfaced that the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall. In an article entitled "Dateline Australia: America's Foreign Watergate?" published this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, University of Delaware Political Scientist James A. Nathan retraces those accusations and other charges...
Hosts of other favorable housing trends are popping up. One of the biggest surprises is that the inventory of unsold new homes is currently at its lowest level since 1971 (see chart). Says Robert Gough, a housing specialist with the Massachusetts-based economic fore casting firm of Data Resources Inc.: "Given dropping interest rates and shrinking inventories, a growth in housing starts will have to follow." Other bullish signs include a lofty rise in October building permits, which were a full 60% above the depressed level of a year...