Word: governability
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...Soviet Union, the job he now holds. In the past, the post has been largely ceremonial, although its character could well change with the man. Brezhnev is a dynamic speaker and agile politician. In the first months following Khrushchev's death, he and Kozlov might well govern as a duumvirate, sharing state and party control, until the dictatorship again forms its natural pyramid and there is room for only...
...latest novel, like the earlier Something of Value, completely muddies the complex events taking place in Africa. Ruark obviously considers black Africans unfit to govern themselves. In Uhuru, Africans are portrayed as civilized on the surface but ready at the first opportunity to revert to savagery. Ruark's sympathies are all with the white settlers. On page after page, the whites denounce "nigs," "coons," "wogs" and even "Chinks" until the vituperation becomes a bore...
...Washington sees it, Souvanna's neutralist government represents the most palatable of several ugly alternatives. The U.S. has tried to defeat the Reds in Laos by arming and training General Phoumi's army-but Phoumi failed. The Pentagon remains reluctant to commit U.S. armed forces to a landlocked, roadless and rugged terrain for an endless guerrilla war against Communists from China and North Viet Nam. Souvanna may well suffer the fate of other non-Communist leaders who have tried to govern in conjunction with the Reds and have lost their countries to Communist subversion...
...most movng writing in Heart break House is found in the occasional philosophical musings Shaw inects into the conversation--for example, the exchanges between the Captain and Ellie in Act II ("You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life; and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live...
...most conspicuous members of Muñoz' Democratic Left-and a man on whom the U.S. counts heavily-is Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. A onetime radical revolutionary who has moderated his views with time, Betancourt was elected three years ago to govern a country rich in oil but economically ravaged by dictatorship. He has struggled to restore financial stability and provide jobs for his people, who were largely illiterate (illiteracy has dropped from 57% to 27% in three years) and mostly poor. No leader is under fiercer attack by the Communists and Castroites, who have...