Word: government
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continually surprises with flowers growing from the pavement, or with neckties that struggle against being tied. But Mood Indigo is not an anarchic collection of magic notions; what disturbs us from the beginning is a sense of the fantasy's internal coherence: We can't know that laws which govern it, but we're convinced not only of their existence, but of their frightening irreversability...
...President facing this kind of situation would have a major problem. For Richard Nixon, who must contend with opposition majorities on Capitol Hill and try to govern by conciliation, the situation is particularly hazardous. As the Sentinel dispute heated up, he said that he would announce his ABM policy this week. By any reckoning, it is the biggest decision of his Administration to date?and it could bring down righteous wrath on Nixon's head no matter how he decides...
Nonetheless, Dayan's patience might well give Allon a substantial lead. As Premier, Mrs. Meir could be expected to advance the fortunes of Allon, her own favorite for the permanent premiership. In other matters, she would likely govern, as did Eshkol, by consensus politics, and make virtually no change in Israel's policies toward the Arabs. She had still to give her final decision at week's end, but after a lifetime in Israeli politics, she could be only too well aware that a "no" would open the way to a damaging intraparty dispute at a time...
While Richard Nixon and his men are, of course, instituting new policies in a number of areas, the degree of continuity has been high enough to deny the Democrats much cause for complaint so far. Democratic Senator George Mc-Govern of South Dakota confesses: "I'm pleasantly surprised at what seems to be a combination of prudence and progressive spirit." Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona points out that "after 1964, a lot of people complained that they had elected Johnson and gotten Goldwater's foreign policy. Now we've elected Nixon and, to a large extent...
...years. In the most recent national election last May, the party won 8,500,000 votes, or 26.9% of the total cast. Its bloc of 177 members in the Chamber of Deputies is the second biggest, after the Christian Democrats, and makes it impossible for the Christian Democrats to govern except through a coalition. The coalition-Christian Democrats and Socialists-is increasingly shaky, and the new government of Premier Mariano Rumor is beset by accusations of disintegrating education and welfare programs, widespread unease over the increasing power of government and private corporations, and a general charge that Christian Democrats have...