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Papadopoulos realized that his power base in the armed forces themselves was being eroded. As a result, along with a new series of drafts and arrests of student leaders in the summer of 1973, he decided to proceed with a political maneuver that would buy him time. He abolished the...
Those two losses were not serious enough to bring down the government, but Callaghan and his followers were clearly put on warning that their room to maneuver in Parliament had been drastically reduced. It was hardly a reassuring sign for the government, as it awaited the terms of a deal...
Now Moynihan must take on James Buckley, 53, completing his first term in the Senate. A casual, attractive conservative, Buckley's theme line is: "We must get the government off our backs and out of our pockets." He caused a flutter just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas...
Such is the maneuver Veronique innocently pulls on her godfather in this movie, and also the effect the film, in turn, has on us. Veronique wafts the smell of lust, bankruptcy, illegitimate births, etc., by our noses, but does not allow us into the bakery. The film means us, you...
Many Filipinos doubted that Buscayno, a Communist guerrilla since the age of 16, could have been caught in such a simple, old-fashioned trap. To them it seemed more likely to have been a typical Filipino maneuver: lutong macao, or precooking. Dante might have consented to his own capture because...