Word: governability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cortázar finished his book in 1972, when the oppressive and ineffective General Alejandro Lanusse was President. A note to the American reader says that conditions under the present military government of General Jorge Videla are just as bad. This may be true, but it seems somewhat disingenuous not to have men tioned that between Lanusse and Videla was another leader of some notoriety. His name was Juan Perdn, and his two reigns covered some ten years (1946-55, 1973-74). His second coming lasted just one year. Then he died, leaving the country to his wife Isabelita...
...opposed his candidacy. "I will promote a political opening," Figueiredo told newsmen. "And if anyone opposes it, I will arrest them, break them. And I mean it." The statement was predictably hard-nosed, coming as it did from Geisel's hand-picked successor-the fifth general designated to govern Brazil since a military junta ousted President Joao Goulart nearly 15 years ago. All the generals have been stern, but they have lately been disposed to give Brazilians a controlled measure of political freedom. Geisel, who described his country as a "relative democracy," ended newspaper censorship, limited the arrest...
Figueiredo's first big test will be the congressional elections next month; polls already indicate widespread protest support for the opposition MDB. In addition, as part of Geisel's political reforms, Figueiredo will be the first President to govern since 1968 without benefit of Institutional Act No. 5, which gave Brazil's chief executive the power to shut down an unruly congress and deprive citizens of their political rights. Thus the new Brazilian President could conceivably find himself facing a legislature controlled by the opposition-and, embarrassingly, Figueiredo would have no clear legal authority to do anything...
Finally, in 1966, five decades of South Africa's constant tightening of its stranglehold over Namibia led the U.N., with Western support, to revoke South Africa's mandate to govern Namibia. But when a U.N. civilian group attempted to enter the territory to take over administration, South Africa quickly occupied the country with 10,000 troops and told the U.N. to stay...
Israel They would have "administrative autonomy" exercised through an elected "administrative council." It would govern the affairs only of the "Arab residents" in such fields as education, religion, transportation, commerce, health and social welfare. It would also organize a local police force and law courts, but presumably subject to Israeli veto...