Word: governing
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...truth is that both men are desparately out of touch with the mood and the needs of the people they propose to govern. Neither has come close to challenging the rationale for American aggression in Southeast Asia, and neither seems capable of the kind of complete disavowal which can best pave the way for an across the board restructuring of U.S. foreign policy. Humphrey for his part makes the conventional liberal analysis of American society and its ills, and offers the conventional liberal formulas to remedy them. Nixon repeats the stale Republican refrain about high taxes and excessive government spending...
After the coup, Colonel Torrijos explained that a two-man provisional junta, composed of Colonels José M. Pinilla and Bolivar Urrutia, would govern the country only until a new electoral law could be drawn up and elections held for the presidency and National Assembly. Torrijos promised that Guard officers would not be allowed to run for office. Whoever comes to power in Panama must face the extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying...
McCarthy, in fact, epitomizes the spirit of the Ripon Society more precisely than any Republican. Like McCarthy, Ripon people take a somewhat elitist view of political change, placing great emphasis on compassion and reasonableness on the part of those who govern and tending to distrust both pluralism and the concentration of executive power. These were the instincts that made McCarthy seem so out of place in the traditional Democratic Party...
...boxes in his imagination for fear of its strength: he is afraid to govern himself, and so seeks a quiet world in a sterile niche of hierarchy. Thus he becomes his own captor and exploiter, and buries his dreams. Stage-fright soon makes spectators...
...loss to explain why proportionately more Basques carry the Rh-negative blood factor than any other people. But since the days of ancient Rome, anyone who tried to subjugate the people of Euzkadi, or Basque Land, has quickly learned one fact about them: the Basques want to govern themselves. Finally brought under Spanish and French domination in the 19th century, the Basques have maintained one of the most virulent separatist traditions in Europe. Of late, it has exploded into a campaign of deadly terrorism...