Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shambles Ahead. It is also inviting a head-on collision with King Richard, who has maintained an iron rule over Illinois Democrats for the past 14 years. When the crash comes, says Stevenson, "there'll be a shambles." He adds, "But what have we got to lose?" After all, he points out, in November Daley was unable to carry Illinois for Humphrey. The mayor's choice for Governor, Sam Shapiro, was defeated, as were several other Democratic candidates...
...cases had schemed to bring them about. After the Congress Party's initial setbacks in the 1967 state elections, the four states -West Bengal, Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh-had ended up with weak, ineffectual governments, which Indira subsequently suspended, placing the states under direct President's Rule. After a period of political fence mending, Indira hoped that her party would regain its dominance in the new elections...
Clinton said that his two actions were not related and defended his rule-change proposal on the grounds that the teachers of the school system should be rewarded. Over twenty people spoke before the committee in opposition to the Clinton proposals...
...result of a plot by the Soviet military chiefs to kill the civilian leaders and seize control. Another version is that the shooting was part of a KGB (secret police) plot to buttress the argument of Kremlin hawks that the country needs to be placed under sterner rule...
Other South Americans are closely watching the events in Peru. Five of the continent's major countries are ruled by military regimes of various types that tend to emulate one another. If the Peruvians, aided by the Soviets, are able to exert their independence of the U.S. and get away with it, their example is unlikely to be lost on the other generals who today rule more than three-quarters of South America's people...