Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 30% of the electorate. With the help of a forceful civic group, the Better Government Association, the Sun-Times revealed the scandalous land deals involving Alderman Thomas Keane, the mayor's "floor leader" in the rubber-stamp city council and the city's second most powerful politician...
...order image by capturing the Baader-Meinhof gang of bomb-throwing anarchists. Genscher lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and began a tough program to protect the environment. In an April poll, he ranked just behind Scheel and Brandt as Germany's third most popular politician...
...Fanfani, who was emerging as Italy's most powerful politician, the failure of the referendum was a bruising personal setback. "Until now Fanfani has run the Christian Democrats like a despot," said a Socialist official. "He won't be able to do that any more." The Communists, generally delighted by the outcome of the referendum, may find that the Christian Democrats' weakness will dim prospects for the "historic compromise" between left and right that Enrico Berlinguer has proposed between Italy's two largest parties...
Paradoxically, Brandt has always seemed a greater man to the rest of the world than he did to his own people. Many Germans saw him not as a world statesman but as an erratic politician who was subject to spasms of lethargy and drink-fueled melancholy, who talked aimlessly of quitting after suffering electoral setbacks. Germans who preferred their leaders to be stark (strong) were bothered by his indecision and inability to keep his political house in order...
...Helmut Schmidt, 55, went on television and bluntly accused his boss, Willy Brandt, of weak leadership and laxity. That kind of pugnacity long ago earned West Germany's new Chancellor-nominate the nickname "Schmidt-Schnauze" (Schmidt the Lip). Friends and enemies alike describe him as an "American-style" politician, in reference to his rough-and-tumble skill as an infighter. Certainly no one has ever accused him of indecision or timidity- or of hiding his ambition to take over Brandt...