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...well as reigned, sacking a Prime Minister was a well-exercised royal prerogative. Things are supposed to be different nowadays-at least within the British Commonwealth-but it did not seem so in Australia last week. There the personal representative of Queen Elizabeth II, Governor General Sir John Kerr, seemingly seized with the spirit of George III, fired Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, leader of the Labor Party, and installed Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser as head of a caretaker government. Invoking constitutionally questionable powers never before exercised in Australia, the Governor General also dissolved Parliament and proclaimed new elections for Australia...
...sparked the crisis, Sir John Kerr, 61, is a former judge and was appointed Governor General by Whitlam nearly two years ago. As the representative of the British Crown and the symbol of executive authority in Australia-with power to "summon, prorogue and dissolve" Parliament-the Governor General has always acted only on the advice of the leaders of the party commanding a majority in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Australian Parliament. Since his Labor Party holds 65 of the 127 seats in the House, Whitlam certainly could expect that the Governor General would take orders...
...your appointment as head of government [and] the appointments of all the ministers in your cabinet." The Governor General then received Fraser, who had been waiting -unknown to Whitlam-in an anteroom. After agreeing that he would not institute new policies or dismiss government officials, Fraser was directed by Kerr to form a caretaker Cabinet that will govern until the elections...
...week's end the election campaign was beginning to take shape. Whitlam will obviously try to capitalize on the public's anger at what it considers to be Kerr's usurpation of power; he hoped to gain a large sympathy vote by hammering away at the theme that Fraser gained office shamefully. As he told a press conference last week, "Clearly the great issue, almost the sole issue of this campaign will be whether the government which the people elect with a majority in the House of Representatives will be allowed to govern from...
Cancer Factor. Dr. Michael Kerr, a clinical professor of psychiatry in the family section of Georgetown University Medical School, believes that emotional problems helped produce cancer in 25 of 30 cases he has treated at the Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Center. "We're not saying that the emotional system of a family causes cancer, but it is a factor...