Word: parliamentarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most prolific idea men in politics, with a range of interests and enthusiasms that would defy an indexer. He has sponsored a thriving private-enterprise plan for Latin American development (ADELA) and is trying to launch similar ventures for Greece and Turkey. He is chairman of the NATO Parliamentarian's Economic Committee and an oft-heard advocate of greater political and economic cooperation within the Alliance. He speaks regularly and perceptively on the problems of Germany and of Viet Nam. On the domestic scene, he is an authority on issues ranging from Medicare to middle-income housing, civil rights...
...buying a judge's opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples. When mild, soft-spoken Charles Helou, 52, was elected President of Lebanon by its Parliament in 1964, everyone expected him merely to preside over this happy chaos, because, as one Beirut parliamentarian puts it, "Corruption is the Lebanese way of life, and it is no use to fight against...
...influences of his as defeat of the poll tax amendment. And conservatives will still be able to use the devices they have used in the past, although, hopefully, greater liberal majorities and a more efficient liberal machine--partially DSG organized--will at least equalize the previously disproportionate amount of parliamentarian talent which conservatives...
...Queen journeyed from Soestdijk Palace to the little Huis Ten Bosch Palace outside The Hague to consult with the leaders of The Netherlands' fiercely independent factions on how to put together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally picked Catholic Parliamentarian Norbert Schmelzer, 43, as her informaleur-the man who, under Dutch practice, is empowered to look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little Holland...
...Italian Communist Party remains formidable, but it is not likely that Togliatti's heirs will succeed where he failed. To the end, he insisted that he was a democrat and a parliamentarian, and over a glass of wine he seemed convincing. But what he truly was Italians call "possibilista"-one who does whatever is possible. And no matter how hard he had tried, the seizure of power in Italy had not been possible to Palmiro Togliatti...