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When the meeting broke up at 3 a.m., Costa Gomes, grave and unsmiling, hurriedly drove back to Lisbon's Belém Presidential Palace. A moderate himself who had successfully managed to keep the warring factions within the government at bay since becoming President last October, Costa Gomes seemed plainly resigned to replacing Gonçalves. At swearing-in ceremonies for 18 junior ministers in Lisbon, he said wearily: "It is not simple to be a member of a government team whose duration is expressed in days." At the same ceremony, a bitter Gonçalves declared that...
...shared optimism about the future. Consider that moment of new beginnings in 1945-46, when millions of veterans returned home from World War II to resume peacetime living. For many, the G.I. Bill made possible the previously elusive dream of a college education. The economy did not suffer the grave postwar slump that experts had forecast. Despite gathering doubts about Russia, most Americans had an optimistic faith in the twin security of their nuclear monopoly and the new United Nations, where the big powers would work together to guarantee the peace. That was a brief, sunny interval indeed. Just...
...afforded. Neither Gallup nor Harris found that the President's recent European journey helped him a bit in their measurements, and that cast doubt on whether the expected agreement in the Middle East would dispel the political and economic shadows. There is almost nothing, except a grave national military peril, that takes such a toll of Presidents as economics...
...lawmakers are clearly reluctant to act against a technology that already supplies 8.5% of the nation's electricity and generates employment as well-especially when there are no alternative energy sources ready to be used. All this is not to deny that nuclear energy still poses many grave problems. But whether "education"-which to the Naderites apparently means scaring the public with hyperbole-is the way to resolve them seems dubious indeed...
...someone does not provide soon, Argentina's constitutional system will be in grave danger. Last week dozens of terrorist bombings shook Buenos Aires, leaving one dead and several wounded. Six police stations were also attacked. So far, the armed forces have obediently stayed in their barracks. Still, sources close to the military acknowledge that chaos in the streets, coupled with continued failure of the civilian government to head off economic ruin, could eventually provoke a coup...