Word: governability
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...council gave voice to 2,500 bishops from all over the world, and it turned out that their voice, heard in the great debate of St. Peter's nave, spoke for John's instincts and not for the conservative Italians who govern the church in the name of the Pope...
...President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about the French not being able to govern themselves--and we sit here wrestling with a Bricker Amendment.'" (Italics D.D.E...
...remains determined to oust Castro (presumably by economic strangulation), but that the U.S. will not permit its policies to be controlled by exile "war parties." In acid Spanish, Hurwitch told Miro that the exiles must fall into line or "no Cuban exile will obtain access to U.S. Govern ment officials again...
...Tense Week. The nation longed for a stable government that would set about putting things right. Two weeks before the election, the likelihood seemed to be another minority regime-a Pearson plurality, needing makeshift accommodations with splinter parties to govern. Instead, when a record 7,800,000 voters went to the polls last week, in a countryside where the last blasts of winter were still being felt in many places, the voters came within an ace of giving Mike Pearson the majority of 133 of the House of Commons' 265 seats. His Liberals won 128 seats to the Tories...
...C.D.U. would continue to govern Rhineland-Palatinate in coalition with the Free Democrats, but it was clear that its loss there was the most damaging that the party had suffered in five state elections in the past 16 months. Taking stock, C.D.U. officials were now certain that the fault lay with der Alte's obstinate fight to hang onto his post, blocking the succession of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...