Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assault ship H.M.S. Fearless for what Smith called "the last, last chance" of agreement before Rhodesia goes its own way. It was also a slim chance, since both men have made pledges that are difficult to retract. Smith has vowed that Rhodesia's 220,000 whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come to be called NIBMAR- No Independence Before Majority African Rule. Given Smith's position...
...problem is that a presidential candidate needs more than a popular plurality to win the election-he must also gain a clear majority in the Electoral College, which now has 538 electors. The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires separate electoral votes for President and Vice President. But this originally clarifying rule has long been a potential source of confusion. If the popular winners lack electoral majorities, the House selects a President from among the three candidates who have received the most votes in the Electoral College. The Senate Dicks a Vice President in the same fashion, but considers only the leading...
...government had reached with IPC. Asked when there would be new elections, General Velasco said nothing. Once more, a Latin American army had taken over a civilian regime. The bloodless coup in Peru brought to three-fourths the proportion of people on the continent living under military rule...
...hope that the new constitution would be a first step toward a return to representational government. Many more Greeks, however, voted NAÍ mainly because they felt that it would be highly imprudent not to do so. In the countryside, where the junta's rule is especially entrenched, voters were handed only the NAÍ ballot by the election officials, and few voters dared ask for the ÓX1 (no) ballots, which were kept out of their reach. At some polling stations, strangers who had the look of plainclothesmen lounged around the ballot boxes. Under the circumstances...
...point where Columbia College had no student government. The Report on Student Life was not released for seven months until CUSC members threatened publication. The President was unwilling to surrender absolute disciplinary powers. In addition, government by improvisation seems to have been not an exception, but the rule...