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...leader was the last thing he wanted to do. He changed his mind for the good of his government, which unites the country's two major political parties-the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats-in an unprecedented coalition. In recent weeks, Kiesinger has been worried by the harsh attacks some C.D.U. politicians were making on the Socialists. Furthermore, C.D.U. gains and minor S.P.D. losses in two recent state elections have made the Socialists sensitive to any political maneuvers by their coalition partners. By taking over the party, Kiesinger expects to be able to keep the more rambunctious members...
Last week the British Crown Colony suddenly lost its spectator status. From the colony's teeming Kowloon district, thousands of pro-Maoist Chinese poured into the streets to harass Hong Kong's British rulers with the same harsh tactics that Mao's Red Guards have used on their enemies within Red China...
...Turcios Lima died at 24 in an auto accident last October. New President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has combined an army drive to hunt down guerrillas with a civic-action program that aims to lure peasants from the rebel cause by making life a little less unpleasant in the harsh backlands...
When House Republican leader Gerald Ford was at Harvard, he spoke of "constructive Republican alternatives" to Administration proposals. That grandiose pronouncement has little apparent grounding in reality; the Republican alternative to the Administration's education proposal strikes a harsh blow at education and equality of opportunity...
...charter contained little thought of revolutionary fervor or political ideology. In contrast to the American Declaration of Independence, with its ringing "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Canada's Constitution enjoins "Peace, Order and Good Government." For a people preoccupied from the outset with conquering a harsh land, that was mandate enough. But it nonetheless has deprived a maturing Canada of what John Porter calls a "myth proclaiming a Utopia against which, periodically, progress can be measured. In the U.S. there is a Utopian image which slowly over time bends intractable social patterns in the direction of equality...