Word: governability
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...that Argentina has leaders who want to govern in their citizens' interest, I see hope for that country. Maybe the junta's disastrous invasion of the Falkland Islands was a blessing in disguise...
MOSCOW--Soviet President Yuri V Andropov died late Thursday after only 15 months in power, a rule that began with promises of change and ended with the former KGB chief trying to govern a superpower from his sickbed...
...before the public in brief "photo opportunities" chosen to set him off to advantage. The press would be paying more attention to the Democratic candidates if the public were. But the public has the right instinct about early campaigns. For 3½ years out of four a President should govern as he has to (while being challenged in Congress); all too soon will come the season when politicians avoid hard choices and pander to voting blocs. Challengers are not yet entitled to equal time...
...equilibrium that underlay that consensus, and introduced a period of volatili ty that is with us to this day. Not only is the center fractured, but the political system now oscillates between the remaining extremes. Revulsion with Viet Nam pulled the Democratic Party to the left: to Mc-Govern in 1972, and to an abiding distrust of American power and intentions ever since. A countervailing revulsion with growing American weakness-for example, economic prostration before OPEC and national humiliation by Iran-helped pull the Republican Party into the orbit of the Reagan right...
...transition toward civilian rule was supposed to begin this week with the first full meeting of the nine-member "advisory council" that will govern until elections can be held. But that session now seems in doubt since Alister Mclntyre, the Grenadian economist appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to head the council, has fallen ill. He resigned his new post, and reportedly entered a Geneva hospital for eye surgery...