Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parliament, Roy Jenkins, the humane and reform-minded Home Secretary, found himself cast in the difficult role of trying to convince an enraged public that the government was doing everything reasonable to protect its citizens. Among the "draconian" measures, "unprecedented in peacetime," that Jenkins asked Parliament to pass: outlawing the Irish Republican Army in Britain; curtailment of habeas corpus to permit police to arrest without warrant I.R.A. suspects and to hold them for up to seven days...
...possibly this week. Tanaka's own choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 64. His chief rival is former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69, a sleepy-looking veteran politician who was runner-up to Tanaka in the party election of 1972. Although a conservative, Fukuda has long called for reform of Japan's system of "money power," and this may make him more palatable to the party leaders as a symbol of belated reform...
...about the 36-year-old Mengistu except that he speaks for the council, a band of 120 men who range in rank from private to major. Though the council seems to be divided over exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should be solved by granting...
...dealer in and generator of conflict, Wiseman still has none of the air of the crusader. "When I began," he says with a grin, "I might have had a naive idea of the relationship between film and social change. But it is ridiculous to think you are going to reform the world with a documentary. I make these films because I enjoy making them enormously. In a sense, what I am doing is natural history. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a film about what it was like in a hospital during the Civil...
...Skocpol said she was unhappy that "reform was not carried to its logical conclusion...