Word: governability
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...funds), a monumental drunkard, an almost compulsive liar, and an addicted hemp smoker. More important, he was a disaster as Prime Minister. Although his party barely controlled less than one-fourth of the seats in Parliament, he refused to make the political compromises necessary to form a working coalition government, quickly alienated almost every important power base in the Congo. Headstrong, unstable and perpetually frenzied, Lumumba never even tried to govern. His army rebelled less than a week after he took office; his Belgian civil servants fled in terror; vital provinces tried to secede; and the land, neither administered...
...Saviour. To the first Jewish Christians of Jerusalem, he was primarily the Messiah spoken of by Isaiah and the prophets. The Christos Pantocrator of Orthodoxy was as royal a governor as any Byzantine emperor. Calvinism emphasized the stern lord of the Last Judgment, a magistrate who could govern the theocracy that was Geneva. The most painted figure in the history of art, Jesus has been portrayed in countless forms, from the fat-legged infant in the laps of serene
...future of this nation requires some truthful and objective answers. If the 1959 morals arrest that is now revealed indicates Jenkins' vulnerability to Soviet blackmail during these years, and if this dangerous fact has been concealed by President Johnson, then the fitness of this Administration not only to govern but to defend this nation from its enemies must be examined...
...Vatican Council last week moved closer to the beginning of a vast change in both the spirit and structure of the Roman Catholic Church. In a series of decisive votes, the 2,500 assembled prelates approved the principle of episcopal collegiality-thereby affirming that as a body they govern and teach the entire church in union with the Pope. They thus restored to Catholicism a sense of fraternal authority that had been lost during the development of an all-powerful papacy and foreshadowed a gradual diminishment of the Roman Curia's power...
Instead of an episcopal staff, Makarios, 51, carries a kingly scepter, and he signs all his documents in red ink. These are not the personal eccentricities of the only cleric to govern a sovereign nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council...