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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Fahri Koruturk and resign; he declined to try to form a new government and recommended that the mandate be given to Demirel. The Justice Party holds only 183 seats in the 450-member house. To form a government, Demirel will have to put together a coalition with two right-wing groups, the Muslim Nationalist Salvation Party and the ultrarightist National Action Party. Neither is a very palatable partner for Demirel's moderate party...
...logical thing would be for Ecevit and Demirel to team up in a "grand coalition" of their two parties, which together poll more than 70% of the vote. Both are very near the center, with the Justice Party leaning a bit to the right and the Republicans to the left. But such a coalition appears impossible, because of the personal animosity and bitter rivalry between the two men. They are totally different in style and personality: Ecevit, 54, is an intense, ulcer-suffering intellectual and poet; Demirel, 55, is a talkative extravert and was a successful private businessman before...
...Two weeks ago the conspirators informed the U.S. embassy in San Salvador that they were ready to stage Romero's overthrow. Last Monday their forces moved swiftly through the capital city, carrying out the plotters' plan to "behead the army" by arresting the general staff and putting 85% of the senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...
...past five years, the story spread that the Soviet leader had succumbed to one of his many ailments, which allegedly include emphysema, cancer of the jaw, heart disease, gout and leukemia. Kremlinologists pointed out that Brezhnev had not been seen in public since his return to Moscow two weeks ago from a state visit to East Germany. There observers had been shocked by the Soviet leader's shuffling walk, slurred speech and a paralyzed left cheek that suggested a recent stroke...
Last week the Commerce Department reported that the nation's output of goods and services, which had declined at an annual rate of 2.3% in the second quarter, actually rose again by 2.4% in the July-September period. Since a recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, it thus will be early 1980 before experts can formally announce the arrival of a textbook recession. But the latest indications of growth were deceiving and cannot endure long. The upswing was due primarily to a temporary increase in consumer spending, as people who had been kept away...