Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Premier Takeo Miki demanded that Ohira step down as Premier and party leader, and his call was soon echoed by Fukuda, whom Ohira had ousted as Premier last December. But the Bull refused to quit, thus triggering a fierce party struggle. At first, says one L.D.P. Diet member, "we thought that it was like any fight between father and mother. It would get serious, but in the end there would be no divorce." Yet as the days went by, all attempts at compromise proved fruitless...
...political leader of "the movement "speaks on I.R.A. aims...
According to British intelligence, the supreme leader of the Proves is Belfast-born Gerry Adams, 31, a sometime student and bartender who has spent 4% of the past nine years in prison without being convicted of a serious crime. In the past three years, the British say, Adams has honed the Proves into a deadly terrorist force. Despite their small numbers -there are only 600 to 700 gunmen, organized into cells of four to six men each -they manage to tie down 30,000 troops and police. A top British officer in Ulster says flatly: "Gerry Adams runs the I.R.A...
...Volckerism continues to drive up the cost of money and tighten credit much further, the cheering will increasingly be mixed with catcalls. House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas is already bitterly denouncing the Federal Reserve for "pouring gasoline on a fire in a misguided effort to put it out." He argues that high interest itself is a cause of inflation because it increases the cost of buying a new home or constructing a new plant. Builders Union President Robert Georgine warned that President Carter's pledge to his workers to "not fight inflation with your jobs" would...
True, there is currently some fascination, and some suspense, in watching Candidate Howard Baker, the Senate minority leader, calibrate the exact degree of his opposition to the SALT treaty. And it was exhilarating to see John Connally playing catchup, firing that long bomb of his about the Middle East-with results that have persuaded no other candidate of the usefulness of candor. But what happens when candidates no longer define issues as they used to be defined in terms of priorities in spending, or in terms of problems and solutions...