Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start his speech, only to be halted by sustained ovations. When the crowd finally paused, he devoted almost the entire message to extolling his concept of a New Federalism. "For 50 years," he said, "politicians in both parties have been saying that we had to decentralize government, that power should go back to the states. But for 50 years nobody has really done anything about it until this Administration came to power. We have offered the most revolutionary legislation in the history of the republic in this respect." That legislation includes proposals for revenue-sharing with the states, welfare reforms...
...Yvelines, a largely middle-class district outside Paris, Michel Rocard, one of the few party leaders in France to side openly with the May revolutionaries, won election to the National Assembly. Rocard, 39, is the boyish-looking secretary of the tiny Unified Socialist Party (P.S.U.), whose slogan is "worker power, student power, peasant power." The man he defeated in the closely watched by-election was none other than former Pre mier Maurice Couve de Murville, the Gaullist believed by most of France to speak for Charles de Gaulle himself...
...supervise state spending. It is a position that normally opens the door to the highest echelons of the government and big business. By then, however, Rocard was already an active Socialist. In 1967, having split with Socialist Leader Guy Mollet over his part in placing De Gaulle in power in 1958. Rocard left the government to work as the only full-time employe of the P.S.U.-a distinction he still holds. The party claims only 15,000 followers...
...Power Struggle. Why all the artillery? As the cops figure it, the thugs were less afraid of a police bust than of each other. The meeting in the mountains was apparently called to settle a power struggle between the younger Mafiosi, who are keen on such things as dope smuggling, kidnaping and other urban crimes, and their extortion-oriented elders, who have been taking a pounding from the police lately. Over the past two years, Calabrian officials, using special legislation, have sent 274 Mafiosi into "enforced residence" in Northern Italy, threatened another 789 with similar exile, put 198 under surveillance...
...eventual Chief of State. To ensure that the actual governing of Spain will be in expert hands, Franco has also been planning the Cabinet that he wants to leave in charge of the country. Last week, in the most important Cabinet changes in his 30 years of power, El Caudillo made known his choices...