Word: parliamentarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first effort to solve the crisis, Italy's 82-year-old President Sandro Pertini asked Andreotti to try to form a new government. If he succeeds, it will mark the third Cabinet in a row that Andreotti has headed, but the odds are against him. Although a skilled parliamentarian, he does not belong to the Christian Democratic leadership. His party, moreover, sorely misses the masterly negotiating talents of onetime Premier Aldo Moro, who was kidnaped and murdered by Red Brigades terrorists last year...
Despite the clear conservative tilt in the Midwest, voters sometimes went the other way in their desire to shake things up. In Michigan they chose Democrat Carl Levin, 44, former president of the Detroit city council and a party regular, over Republican Senator Robert Griffin, a skillful parliamentarian and his party's Senate whip. At the same time, Michigan's voters stuck with an able Republican Governor, William Milliken, 56, despite a harsh campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during...
Austin Currie, 38, is the protesting Ulster parliamentarian whose initial sit-in at a County Tyrone public housing development sparked the civil rights movement. He now lives outside Dungannon in a house equipped with bulletproof glass, security locks, alarms and floodlights. The house, peppered with 68 bullet holes, has been attacked more than 20 times by extremists of both sides. Currie's wife Annita has been brutally beaten by intruders, who scratched UVF (for the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force) on her bosom. Says Currie: "What has happened here over the past ten years is only larger and more intense...
DIED. Sir Dingle Foot, 72, British parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
DIED. James Browning Allen, 65, Alabama's junior Senator and a wily parliamentarian who recently helped lead Senate opposition to the Panama Canal treaties; of a heart attack; in Foley, Ala. After rising in state politics to become George Wallace's hand-picked Lieutenant Governor, Allen fought his way past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern...