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Time was when the Russians could imperiously summon a conference of European Communist parties, dictate the agenda, and crown the session with long speeches by comrades praising the Soviet Union as the true leader of the socialist world. Not any more, apparently. What was to have been a final preparatory meeting for an all-Europe Communist summit conference early next year ended in deadlock in East Berlin late last month. Instead of approving a document demonstrating Communist unity, the abortive meeting highlighted the unseemly disarray of Communism in Europe these days...
...sparked the crisis, Sir John Kerr, 61, is a former judge and was appointed Governor General by Whitlam nearly two years ago. As the representative of the British Crown and the symbol of executive authority in Australia-with power to "summon, prorogue and dissolve" Parliament-the Governor General has always acted only on the advice of the leaders of the party commanding a majority in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Australian Parliament. Since his Labor Party holds 65 of the 127 seats in the House, Whitlam certainly could expect that the Governor General would take orders...
...knocked out a front tooth. He ripped out the phone and took her crutches and broke them before he left. She had to crawl with her one leg down the corridor of her apartment house at least 50 ft. before she found a neighbor home to summon the police...
...have to cope with-metropolis, the breeder of anonymity and anomie (the lack of purpose and values). They had the urgency that comes with vivid and widely shared causes. Military enemies first pushed them together and then, in order to "form a more perfeet Union," they had to summon moral energies for even more demanding tasks. Many decades later, slavery at home and then Nazism abroad occasioned similar summonings. Today, in contrast, frustrations arising from various foreign and domestic setbacks, the failure of some good intentions on New Frontiers and in Great Societies, contribute to skepticism about causes...
Epps said yesterday that the student security guard assigned to Claverly pressed an emergency button to summon the Harvard police, but that police did not respond...