Word: governs
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Last Hurrah. The surprising strength of Trudeau's Liberal Party gave his government a comfortable 141 seats of 264 in the House of Commons. Trudeau's majority can now govern without relying on the support of one of Canada's splinter parties. The Conservatives lost twelve seats, ending up with 95, and the tiny, right-wing Social Credit Party dropped from 15 to eleven...
...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
Instead of extending the present SALT I treaty, which limits only the number of missiles, the two leaders agreed to try to work out a comprehensive accord that would govern not only the quantity but also the quality of weaponry -the kind as well as the number of warheads and launchers. Negotiators will confer in Geneva in August and attempt to write a settlement that would begin in 1975 and run until...
...that included neofascists, far-left urban guerrillas, and trade unionists. From exile, the ousted President stayed in touch with his loyalists in Argentina through lengthy letters, taped messages and personal emissaries. He remained the most important single factor in Argentine politics. A succession of five military and three civilian governments found themselves unable to govern effectively, partly because of the discontent?and promise?fomented by Perón.' With each failure the alternative was clear: Per?...
John J. Cowles Jr., 45. "People need to be informed in order to govern their lives well," says the chairman of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., who oversees an "information and ideas" empire that includes four daily newspapers, Harper's magazine, suburban weeklies and television and radio interests. Born in Des Moines, he moved to Minneapolis soon after the senior Cowles bought the Star. After Harvard, he joined the Tribune, inheriting the editorship from his father in 1961. While making the two newspapers independent of each other, Cowles persuaded the Guthrie Theater to establish itself in Minneapolis...