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What can now be done by the people of the U.S. to clear up this intolerable mess? First the massive campaign to impeach and convict Nixon of high crimes and misdemeanors must be increased until he is forced to resign or driven from public office. Second, a commission of outstanding citizens should be appointed by the Congress which is to be elected in November 1974, to thoroughly investigate and expose the crimes committed by Nixon's four immediate predecessors...
...would seem an almost impossible task. Heath had sought a larger mandate to deal with the miners and inflation; he was stunningly rebuffed. To many Britons, Conservatives as well as Laborites, his refusal to resign not only smacked of opportunism but risked intensifying divisions in the country. Wrote Peter Jenkins in the Guardian: "Nothing in his term of office so ill becomes him like his leaving...
...several months, French political pundits have been forecasting the imminent demise of ineffective Gaullist Premier Pierre Messmer. Last week Messmer did indeed resign, along with his entire government, only to be replaced six hours later by none other than Pierre Messmer. Although the number of Ministers in the new Cabinet had been trimmed from 23 to 16 in the name of "cohesion," the major portfolios -economy and foreign policy-remained in familiar hands. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing continues as Finance Minister. Michel Jobert remains as Foreign Minister. So why the reshuffle...
...reason for the change was Pompidou's determination to persuade his disenchanted countrymen that the regime plans to attack actively such major problems as inflation and mounting labor unrest. Still another aim, most observers suspect, is the determination of the President-who many Frenchmen believe will resign before the 1976 elections because of his ill health-to keep firm control of the government. By re-appointing Messmer, Pompidou made it clear that he is not yet ready to anoint a possible successor...
...dispute over state control of cable television. Last week, after a disagreement over fiscal policy, he announced that he would no longer serve as Rumor's Treasury Minister. La Malfa's Republicans followed him out of the coalition, and Rumor had no choice but to resign...