Word: imperiale
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He has settled into the job and grown more comfortable with it. His eyes flash with pleased excitement when he scampers up onstage at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and the band thumps out chorus after chorus of Hail to the Chief, which he once banned as too...
This week Dinnan's 90 days are up. He may be returned to the courtroom to face Judge Owens again. And his case is also being reviewed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Meanwhile he has remained in prison at Florida's Eglin Air...
The conference was held in the majestic 705-year-old imperial Hofburg Palace, but the atmosphere was anything but stately. At times the discussions were overshadowed by the bitter border dispute between Iran and Iraq, both OPEC members. And at one point the Iranian Oil Minister, Ali Akbar Moinfar, accused...
Further abetting an imperial presidency is the almost complete absence of the fourth power--the press. The state controls all radio stations and television networks, assuring constant praise, or at least minimal criticism, of the president's performance. And while the written press ostensibly escapes government intervention, lawsuits and other...
GISCARD'S position has evolved considerably from his 1974 role as the "people's president." During that election, he ran what many perceived as an American-style campaign: psoing for informal pictures with friends and family while playing accordian, or standing bare-chested in a soccer stadium. Once in office...