Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vesque is still committed to separatism for Quebec, but his masterly campaign strategy was built around barely mentioning the Independence issue. After the 1973 election debacle, the Péquistes had soft-pedaled their platform calling for immediate separation, promising instead to honor the results of a popular referendum to be held within two years of taking office. In the campaign, Lévesque concentrated on attacking Bourassa's Liberals for economic mismanagement, ineptitude and untrustworthiness. Said Lévesque repeatedly through the campaign: "Our first aim will be to create the best provincial government possible...
...Billy Emper led a cast of four Harvard returnees from last season's all-league squad. Among them were tight end Bob McDermott, running-back Tommy Winn, and linebacker Tommy Joyce. Joyce was also named on Saturday to the All-ECAC squad, the only Crimson gridder to achieve that honor...
...hand. For two weeks in a row [Oct. 25; Nov. 1], you have seen fit to depict prehensile appendages-the hands of man and beast-on your illustrious cover. Does this mean that the coveted Man of the Year award might perchance be replaced by an analogous honor for "Hand of the Year"? If so, I cast my vote...
Smith insists that even if the Geneva talks collapse, he will honor what he says was his promise to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger-namely, the establishment of majority rule within two years. What Smith means by "majority rule," however, still remains ambiguous. He may try to limit the franchise to blacks dominated by the four pliant tribal chiefs who were elevated to Cabinet status earlier this year. That arrangement would fool no one and would leave real power in Rhodesia in white hands...
Enlightened Peace. There were other ceremonies in honor of the event across Japan, but none were without political shadows. Socialist leaders boycotted the Tokyo ceremonies to protest the continuing Lockheed scandal; so did the Japanese Communists, who oppose the "Emperor system" itself. More than 30,000 police were on duty in Tokyo alone to control isolated leftist demonstrators, some of whom denounced Hirohito as a "war criminal...