Word: governability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NORTHERN IRISH NATIONALISM. If Britain persists in denying democratic rights to its own citizens, matters will be brought to a head, and we'll ask for negotiation to set up an independent Ulster. We have now put the challenge to Britain that it must govern us as it governs Scotland and Wales. We're quite happy to do without [our own] parliament if necessary, provided of course that we would have equal [representation] in Westminster. We had to take the stand we did for our own pride. More and more people began to think that the Protestants would...
...charges of being an East German spy. They were startled again when Günther Nollau, head of Bonn's principal internal security agency, the BfV, conceded in a television interview that other spies of "Guillaume's caliber" were probably operating at the highest levels of govern ment. Now the country is reeling from a third shock: allegations that Nollau himself has been an East German...
...make trouble for Giscard in the National Assembly, where the Socialists and Communists hold 174 of the 490 seats. With only 55 seats in the hands of his own Independent Republican Party, Giscard needs the support of the Gaullists (183 seats) and some Centrist deputies if he is to govern effectively. The Gaullists have never cared for Giscard, who broke with the party in the 1969 referendum on regional reform that led to De Gaulle's fall from power; they say that they will give his regime varying "degrees of support," depending on the issues...
...first put his footprints on the earth. The book ends in the 20th century at the same location with Bronowski's fearful, yet hopeful look into the future. In between he leads the way through a catalogue of human accomplishment, from Pythagoras on the mathematical laws that govern the universe to the revolutionary observations of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo; from Newton's experiments on the diffraction of light to James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the key to the alphabet of life, the master molecule...
...ruling junta-which represents the Armed Forces Movement and is led by General António de Spínola, 64, a monocled, swashbuckling counterinsurgency hero turned reformer-has pledged to form a provisional government this week. As that deadline approached, no fewer than 54 different political parties, ranging from Maoist splinter groups on the left to monarchists favoring the restoration of the House of Bragança on the right, stepped up their jockeying for influence. All wanted to be part of the interim coalition that will govern Portugal until general elections are held next spring...