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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused by leftist detractors of acting like a "little king." He, in turn, scorns the willingness to compromise that was Scares' trademark. Says Sá Carneiro: "This was the evil of the Socialist Party. They conciliated with us and the Communists. It does not work." As a member between 1969 and 1973 of the rubber-stamp parliament of the post-Salazar dictatorship led by Marcello Caetano, Sá Carneiro pressed for political liberalization, including curbs on the brutal secret police. After the revolution, he was made a Minister Without Portfolio, but he soon quit to form his own party...
Lynch had been expected to resign, but not quite so soon. He wanted to give his successor time to prepare for the next election. However, last week a Fianna Fáil member raised a question in Parliament about the party's defeat in two November by-elections in Lynch's native County Cork. That was the second humiliation this year: in June, Fianna Fáil was trounced in an election of delegates to the European Parliament. These reversals came on top of a number of economic woes that also undermined Lynch: high inflation (14%), soaring interest...
...three-member tribunal appointed by Brigadier General Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli military commander for the West Bank, then reviewed the case; last week it was announced that Shak'a's deportation order had been annulled. Among the "many considerations" involved in the turnabout, General Ben-Eliezer explained, were "the welfare of the city of Nablus and the welfare of Mr. Shaka'a's family." He might have added that the well-being of Begin's embattled government had also been a factor. In fact, nobody seemed happier with Ben-Eliezer's decision than...
...five-man group favored a high tax but could not agree on the particulars. So each member sent a separate proposal to Carter. The differences revolve around the size and timing of the tax and how to distribute the projected $50 billion in revenues that it would collect. One popular idea is to rebate perhaps $40 billion to workers and employers in the form of lowered Social Security and income tax levies. Another suggestion involves using some $10 billion to help balance the fiscal 1981 federal budget...
Many European and U.S. bankers have been at odds since mid-November. It was then that Chase Manhattan and six other large U.S. banks in an eleven-member syndicate used their voting majority to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default. That raised fears of still further defaults and sparked the rush to seize Iranian assets as compensation...