Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fray) was swept into office with 54% of the vote, the greatest plurality in Chilean history. He won partly because of his own magnetism, partly because of his ambitious ideas to cure Chile's many economic and social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where he finally withdrew his entire program until after election day. Said Frei: "I will appeal...
Velie said that Adams House will enter a bid only if it is not a binding contract. He emphasized that he felt a lame duck House Committee should not make any major commitments...
...envoy to Uganda refused to acknowledge this international misdemeanour with the inexcusable and lame reason that the bombers were Congolese, but not U.S. Such an excuse only shows U.S. ignorance of her own actions abroad or her determination to massacre Africans and South-East Asians indiscriminately in pursuit of her world domination. To refute the U.S. ambassador's excuses, it must be pointed out that the T-28's and B-47's that were used are U.S. made, financed, and controlled. They are flown by Cuban mercenaries in U.S. employment. No Congolese are capable of flying a fighter plane...
Chile's imaginative new President Eduardo Frei may not be able to get a single key bill through his lame-duck Congress, but he has certainly stirred the country's youth to unaccustomed activities. To help make good his election promise of "no child without a school," Frei has recruited an unpaid hammer-and-nail corps of 1,500 university students to build schools in out-of-the-way places that have rarely seen a government mission of any kind. Local communities provide building materials, plus food and lodging for the student workers. The students expect to complete...
Zero for Three. While he received the greatest endorsement ever given a Chilean President (55% of the vote), Frei faced a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats held only 33 of 192 seats. With new elections coming up March 7, the Congressmen have been arguing and doodling away their time, have refused even to hear government ministers in defense of some key bills...