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...have since been freed or exiled to Western European countries). He engineered the national referendum that paved the way for last week's elections after adroitly maneuvering the old rubber-stamp Cortes into voting itself out of existence by approving a reform bill that provided for a new bicameral parliament. After abolishing the National Movement, Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke...
...proportional representation system had been gerrymandered by the government to compensate for Fianna Fáil's traditional strength in rural districts, Lynch's party won 51% of the popular vote and a commanding majority of 20 seats in the 148-member Dáil (Parliament). The margin of Fianna Fáil's victory, the biggest landslide in Ireland's history, astounded even its own strategists. Among the coalition members defeated was Scholar-Diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs...
...Communist Party of Italy, which gained 34% of the vote in national elections a year ago, now holds a virtual veto over government programs in parliament. In France, another Communist party and its strong Socialist ally could well win a majority in next March's parliamentary elections. In Portugal and Spain, the Communists are fighting to increase their influence. There is a growing view among intellectuals, journalists and some politicians on both sides of the Atlantic that: 1) the U.S. cannot do anything to stop these trends and should not try; 2) the trends are not necessarily bad because...
...RHODES SCHOLAR. It took the British Parliament to break Cecil Rhodes's will, but this year, for the first time, 13 of the 32 American Rhodes scholars are women, and one of them is Catherine Burke, 22, a Middle Eastern specialist at the University of Virginia. She wrote her prize-winning 157-page senior thesis on the Lebanese civil war. On the 'side, she co-founded a model United Nations at U.Va. and captained the women's fencing team. She hand-letters medieval-style manuscripts for "relaxation" and this summer plans to take a course in Arabic...
...noble Tartar ancestors is strong. In his mother's family tree there are Baltic barons and Teutonic knights. There are added highlights to previous glowing portraits of Nabokov's father V.D. Nabokov, an authority on criminal law and a courageous liberal in Russia's first, shortlived Parliament. He was killed in 1922 in Berlin, while preventing an assassination at a political meeting. After all the articles and interviews published about Nabokov, it is no longer news that as a refugee in Weimar Berlin, he began his brilliant literary career while earning his living by teaching English...