Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the defeated was Kenyatta's righthand man and brother-in-law, Mbi-yu Koinange, who got through the 1974 election by locking up his opponent before voting day and releasing him afterward. The President has also begun to chip away at the large business and land holdings of...
*In Kenya the President must be a member of parliament, and is elected by that body for a five-year term.
Ireland's Prime Minister Jack Lynch, meanwhile, arrived in Washington for talks with President Jimmy Carter, Congressmen and Irish-American leaders on the problems posed by the turmoil in Ulster, which indeed are beginning to show up in the U.S. Shortly before Lynch's visit began, FBI agents...
Adams, a soft-voiced six-footer with spectacles and a brown beard, denies that he is the "mastermind" behind the new I.R.A. He claims that the British want to "personalize" their enemy and settled on him for the purpose. "No one man could have done everything they say I did...
In a brief but moving talk, Simone Veil, a French Jew who survived Bergen-Belsen and is now President of the European Parliament, recalled how the music of gypsy fiddlers had bolstered the morale of the camp's prisoners, until one day the music stopped. She pledged her support...