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...sjare election" that followed the student-worker demonstrations of 1968, the Gaullists and their allies hit their peak, with 46% of the vote and 359 Assembly seats. Under more "normal" conditions in the last regular election of 1967, they won 43% of the vote and a one-seat majority...
...delicate problem in deciding how far to proceed with his threats. He needs the British on Malta, because the island's economy is staggering. Unemployment is up to 7%, tourism has fallen off and emigration is on the rise. Mintoff's Labor Party holds only a one-seat majority over Dr. George Borg Olivier's Nationalists and would likely lose any election held now. The Prime Minister has not exactly increased his popularity with the 330,000 Maltese by threatening to make them repatriate investments kept abroad, including an estimated $500 million in the United Kingdom. Moreover...
Eliot House re-established its claim to hegemony in House crew by stroking to a half-length victory over Kirkland and Winthrop in the annual regatta yesterday on the Charles. Kirkland nipped Winthrop in the last five strokes of the race by a one-seat edge to take second...
Settling to 37 strokes per minute, Harvard recovered. At the 1,000-meter marker, it was a dead heat, and just beyond the bridge, Harvard nudged to a one-seat lead...
...Gaulle's amorphous Union pour la Nouvelle Republique into a political party sturdy enough to survive the general. That the U.N.R. is not yet that was made all too clear in the parliamentary elections last spring, when the "godillots," or foot soldiers, of the general barely managed a one-seat majority in the National Assembly. The U.N.R.'s weakness is directly the result of De Gaulle's contempt for all political parties-even his own. Until Lille, De Gaulle had never permitted Pompidou or any of his ministers to assume direction of the U.N.R...