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...Mot all Spanish officers are rightists. Many are known to be unhappy with the unpopular political task, imposed on the army by Franco only last year, of having to try and execute terrorists charged with killing policemen. There is a core of military moderates-officers who once studied at the High General Staff School under General Manuel Diez Alegria, who was abruptly sacked as army chief of staff by Franco in June 1974. Reason: Diez had openly advocated that the government ease its repression of dissidents and he was also being likened to António de Spínola...
...present Parliament, oratory is often more tinny than golden. The only bon mot of the day came from Labor's former Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn. The embattled Benn responded to Tory taunts that he resign by taking an ungentlemanly swipe at Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher: "If the opposition wants my head on a salver, the leader of the Conservative Party will have to be a lot more seductive Salome than she has been so far." Less dazzling repartee came from left-wing Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, who responded testily to a pro-Market interjection by shouting...
...author is considerably more circumspect when it comes to Shawn, who "has become famous by eschewing fame and is today one of the best-known unknown men in the country." As self-effacing as Ross was extraverted, Shawn's best-known and perhaps only offhand mot was uttered to a young "Talk" reporter: "Go out and mill...
...until Pompidou appointed him Foreign Minister in 1973, he had spent his entire career as a bureaucrat. He is quiet, shakes hands with a stiffness in his right arm from a war wound, and rarely smiles, except for a tight-lipped grin after he has made a clever bon mot...
...year for the past 50 or so, 1974 has been a bad time for royalty. Not only did Greek voters reject King Constantine, but a military junta ousted Ethiopia's venerable (82) Emperor Haile Selassie. Sooner rather than later, it seems, history will bear out the bitter bon mot of Egypt's King Farouk, who himself was forced to abdicate in 1952. In a few years, said Farouk, there will be only five kings in the world: the King of England and the four in the deck of cards...