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The Carter Administration knows that it cannot get its plan through Congress without a bruising fight. It should not have much trouble replacing the Civil Service Commission, which can be accomplished by the President as long as the move is not vetoed by Congress within 60 days. But it will...
To be fair, the French have rarely been so saturated with politics. This will be their fourth trip to the polls in the past five years. The present campaign really began four years ago when the Socialists' Mitterrand barely missed (by 300,000 votes) defeating Giscard for the presidency. Since...
TYNDALL'S DANGEROUS but decisive rhetoric might even be humorous were it not for his party's rapidly rising popularity. The Front has won up to 12.5 per cent of the vote in Britain's recent local and by-elections. In Birmingham, Stechford, the Front polled 8.2 per cent, finishing...
If Costa Ricans needed any reassurance about the health of their political system, they had only to look at another, much different election that occurred last week in neighboring Nicaragua. Instead of crowds dancing in the streets, there were sullen troops guarding polls from which Nicaraguans chose to stay away...
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS of February 5 further exposed the pervasiveness of the anti-Somoza consensus. In that election, 52 of the 132 candidates of the Conservative Party, the country's only legal opposition group (characterized by one Nicaraguan national at Harvard as "His Majesty's loyal opposition"), withdrew their candidacy...