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...immediate result of a leftist victory is likely to be parliamentary paralysis. A Gaullist President with minority support could not govern, and Pompidou has implied that he will not ask any Socialist to form a government. "No one," he has said, "should count on me to renounce everything in which I believe." Legally, he could dissolve the National Assembly and call for new elections. That was a tactic employed by DeGaulle in 1968 to frighten voters into supporting him; unfortunately, French voters have a habit of reinforcing their views in such second elections, which might mean an even larger leftist...
More irksome to Lanusse than Perón's insults was a campaign slogan -"Campora in government, Perón in power"-being used by supporters of Hector Campora, the Peronista candidate for President. The government argued that the slogan violated the constitution, which states that the people do not govern except through elected representatives. On that ground, the junta filed suit in the National Electoral Court demanding that Peron's Justicialist Liberation Front, which had been given a good chance to win the election, be dissolved. If that happens, Peron will be left without a legal means...
Howard Zinn, radical political economist from Boston University, extended Bowles's allegations to the outside world. The Federal government uses "proper procedure" and "sophisticated ambiguities" to hide the real interests of those who govern, Zinn explained...
...beloved Cornwall again, but the matter, this time, is xeno phobia- slick anti-Americanism to be precise. It is the near future. Britain's entry into the Common Market has proved an economic disaster. In order to save the nation from bankruptcy, Her Majesty's government joins the U.S. in a partnership called USUK. The Union Jack is blended with the Star-Spangled Banner to form one flag. With the Queen as coruler, the President of the U.S. will govern from the White House and Buckingham Palace. Minor injury follows major insult. When gum-chewing, libidinous Marines land...
...sensitive area such as this, involving as it does issues over which reasonable men may easily and heatedly differ, I cannot accept the court's [determination]. This issue, for the most part, should be left with the people and to the political processes the people have devised to govern their affairs...