Word: governs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charismatic Caudillo who was elected President five times and deposed four; of a heart attack; in Quito. Though he spent only 13 years in power and nearly 30 years in exile in Argentina, he unnerved opponents throughout his life with his vow: "Give me a balcony, and I will govern Ecuador again." Last elected in 1969, he was removed in 1972, but returned to Quito earlier this year "to meditate and await death...
...Dutch writer Janwillem van de Wetering writes about Amsterdam policemen and the statutes and terrors that govern their lives, but this casual author makes Sjöwal-Wahlöö look like Ellery Queen. Van de Wetering's novels meander along, with asides on the foibles of human nature and gracefully written filaments of Eastern philosophy. The plot is announced early in the narrative and dispatched at the end as quickly as a victim. The author, 48, was once a Buddhist monk in Japan (he wrote about that arduous life in An Empty Mirror). He returned to The Netherlands...
...large part of Carter's problem, as his aides emphasize, stems from the times in which he has been destined to govern. The historical moment is confused, uncertain, unpredictable. The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed; the rise of passionate single-issue politics, the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult. It is a time that offers no obvious set of answers to problems of great technical complexity. Carter, the engineer, has addressed energy, inflation, unemployment, the Middle East, the SALT II agreement...
...nature of the clouds varies surprisingly from country to country. Some oil-rich lands, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and even Iraq, are made more difficult to govern by their oil wealth. Others...
...Information claimed its first major victim: Cornelius P. ("Connie") Mulder, 53, powerful Minister of Plural Relations and Nationalist boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder: "I have no remorse in my soul about the entire matter, because everything I have done I did in the conviction that I was serving my country, South Africa, in the best...