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...defected to the Labor alignment. Still, as he wound up his 20-minute speech in the Knesset, Begin confidently asserted: "The government will not fall today." Then, bracing himself against the cane that he has been using since he broke his hip last November, Begin stepped down from the rostrum to await the roll call. He turned out to be right: by a vote of 58 to 57, the Prime Minister had once again snatched parliamentary survival from what had appeared to be almost certain defeat...
...search for peace that led the Egyptian President, in November 1977, to travel to Jerusalem and embrace his former enemies. Not only did he break a 29-year Arab ban on direct dealings with the Israelis, he went straight to the rostrum of the Knesset to proclaim his willingness "to live with you in permanent peace and justice." More dramatically than any event since the birth of Israel in 1948, that courageous gesture transformed the political realities of a region bloodied and embittered by continual hate, war and violence. As it is given to few individuals, with a single, personal...
...will do exactly what we said we would dono more no less." With those words, spoken from the gilded rostrum of France's National Assembly last week, Socialist Premier Pierre Mauroy unveiled his government's program for transforming the country's social and economic landscape. The only real surprise was Mauroy's determination, at the behest of President François Mitterrand, to act quickly on the basic planks of the Socialists' electoral platform: nationalization of banks and a number of industries, decentralization of the nation's administrative machinery, and reform...
...choir boomed out Handel's Hallelujah Chorus ("And he shall reign for ever and ever") with no apparent sense of irony. Yet perhaps the greatest source of satisfaction for President Ferdinand Marcos last week as he celebrated his third inauguration in 16 years was that standing on the rostrum with Marcos and his wife Imelda was U.S. Vice President George Bush. After years of friction with Jimmy Carter over human rights, the Marcos regime was in favor again with a U.S. President. Indeed, Bush went well beyond expressing the normal diplomatic niceties, even for an old ally, when...
...daises across the U.S. to try to say something wise, important or at least heartfelt to the year's 1.3 million new college graduates. Their collective mood was somber, reflecting anxiety over the arms race, education and the Government's new budget. Some speakers used the campus rostrum for political oratory. One university, Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford, N.J., chose not to have a speaker. Instead the students called in Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, creator of bebop, and let him play his songs Ow and Groovin' High. The campus visit briefly unsettled Gillespie. Afterward the jazzman recalled with...