Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the polls closed, a downcast politician at the Vienna headquarters of Austria's conservative People's Party was able to forecast the results. "The ball rolls," he said resignedly, "and it rolls to the left." When all of the nearly 5,000,000 ballots were counted last week, the Socialist Party of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, 60, had won a majority of the vote-the first for any party since the founding of the Austrian Republic...
...badinage, however, Connally projects an icy, faintly bullying power that compels attention. His demands can be overwhelming. In a widely remembered remark about U.S. international trade and monetary goals. Connally summed up his position: "All I want is a fair advantage." He is a bad loser. Says one Texas politician who has been up against him: "He is totally unforgiving of his political enemies. He'll carry his grudges to the grave. He can also be tenacious as hell, clawing and pushing his way past any obstacle." Connally is no less ambitious than Johnson and he has the same sure...
...middle class, civil servants, students and intellectuals has not on the whole been directed against him personally. But his response has been harsh. He fired First Vice Premier In Tam and stripped him of his brigadier general's rank. In Tam is widely respected as an incorruptible politician, but Lon Nol apparently feared that he would be an eventual rival...
China policy stagnated under the inflexible Johnson administration, while the changing international scene clearly demanded a new stand. Nixon and Kissinger both recognized that America must "come to grips with the reality of China." And what better American politician could open a new era in foreign policy with the Chinese than the very man who led the vehement anti-communist attacks in Congress twenty years ago with the cry "who lost China...
...which had been illegally parked by a friend. "It's on the level of traffic corruption where you first get your breakdown in law-and-order," says the 52-year-old cop. "If someone can fix a parking ticket with a cop or a judge or a politician, it won't be long before everything else is being fixed all the way to who runs for President of the country...