Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carrington's plan is likely to meet strong objections from both sides. The Patriotic Front has thus far insisted on sharing power with Muzorewa and the British during the interim period and merging its armies with the Salisbury security forces. Muzorewa, on the other hand, may balk at the idea of abandoning all authority during the interim period. Hard-lining Rhodesian whites, led by former Prime Minister Ian Smith, can be expected to offer stiff resistance to a settlement that strips them of most of their remaining power...
...Then why did you submit to the British constitution? Was it because you have no intention of fulfilling it anyway if you assume power...
Demirel had been waiting impatiently to regain power since January 1978, when Ecevit lured away ten of Demirel's supporters in the lower house by promising them Cabinet posts. That took away Demirel's majority, causing his government to fall. It also gave Ecevit just enough seats to become Premier with the support of his own party and independents. This time Demirel decided to play Ecevit's game, by luring several of the Premier's supporters over to the opposition. In the by-elections, Demirel's party campaigned for the five lower-house seats...
...plea had little impact. First to ignore it were the notoriously brutal Treasury Police, who killed 18 people in a savage attack on striking workers at four large factories in the capital. Leftist terrorists cut loose with an orgy of violent protest, blowing up three power plants and burning seven buses. The 75,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, the largest of El Salvador's leftist movements, denounced the new junta as merely a "change of face" and planned a mass demonstration in San Salvador. While giving permission for the demonstration, the new junta warned that it would use force...
Protests at home and a price revolt in OPEC as Saudi power wanes In Concord, N.H, it took the form of an automobile "honkin" outside Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign office. In Nashville, a 500-lb. pig with BIG OIL painted on its side was led to city hall to munch slops from a dish labeled AMERICAN WEALTH. In Washington D.C., elderly citizens bused in to join a picket line outside the American Petroleum Institute...