Word: leaders
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Trudeau resigns as Liberal Party leader...
...boutonniere. But as he addressed the weekly caucus of Liberal Party M.P.s in Ottawa last week, a bright yellow rose was attached to his lapel. In a halting voice, Trudeau began to read from a prepared statement: "I am announcing today that after spending nearly twelve years as leader of the Liberal Party, I am stepping down." Then he broke down in tears, explaining: "Well, you always knew I was a softy." That got a standing ovation from his Liberal colleagues, who knew him as a quick-witted, sometimes abrasive figure during eleven years as Canada's Prime Minister...
Many Liberals believed that voters had become so disenchanted with Trudeau that as long as he remained leader the party stood no chance of unseating...
...vesque's Parti Québécois, it now appears, could lose the referendum. In three by-elections to the provincial Parliament two weeks ago, candidates were decisively defeated by Liberals, whose leader in Quebec, Claude Ryan, is an unbending opponent of separatism...
...first interview with an American publication since becoming Prime Minister a little over a year ago, Botha last week outlined his reforms to TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Seated behind a desk decorated with a statue of an early pioneer, the unsmiling Nationalist leader made clear that South Africa's reforms will in no way affect the principle of white sovereignty in a white state. Excerpts from the 90-min. talk...