Word: primed
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Behind every successful politician campaigning to be Britain's Prime Minister, there is a woman. She is Bonnie Angelo, TIME's London bureau chief, who in recent weeks has seldom been more than a few steps behind Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party leader whose triumph in England's election is the subject of this week's cover story. Angelo spent 20 years dogging U.S. politicians as a correspondent in Washington before moving to London last year, and has since trailed Thatcher from Newcastle to Gravesend. "Thatcher is not like any candidate I've ever seen...
...CANADIAN Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau seeks his fourth term in office in the first federal campaign in five years, the outcome of the May 22 election is uncertain. However, one thing is apparent: Trudeau faces the challenge of his political career--and he has not had an easy time the last few campaigns. If he can weather this tempest, the accomplishments of his ten years in office will pale by comparison...
...MEDIA labelled Trudeau a "gunslinger" in this campaign. The same renewed energy and vital charisma Trudeau has shown in previous elections is once again evident. At 60, the Prime Minister, who has a black belt in karate, is reaching back for that little extra that has made him the West's longest-established leader. But he faces a public, disillusioned by high unemployment and spiralling inflation, which charges him with failing to deal with his avowed priority when he took office ten years ago: keeping Canada together, or more accurately, placating Quebec...
Engelhard said in 1967 that "the policy of South Africa as expressed by the new prime minister (John Vorster) is as much in the interests of South Africa as anything I can think of or suggest. I am not a South African, but there is nothing I would do better or differently...
Sweet's performance proved that he is a prime candidate for first team All-American. The Farmingdale (Long Island) Junior College transfer spearheaded UMass' potent offense, netting three goals and adding five assists...