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...savor the spectacle of open dissent within Communist ranks, the Christian Democrats and other parties are not congratulating themselves. They know that if the Communists cannot put across austerity measures to the workers, nobody can. For their part, the Communist leaders are unlikely to change tactics, despite the unrest. To start voting against the Christian Democrats on key issues would only guarantee the collapse of the government and could lead to another national election. Much of the electorate could blame the Communists for adding a political crisis to the economic one. Instead, Berlinguer hopes to intensify his demands that...
California--In a state that has cooked up a dazzling array of eccentric political personalities, the current Senate contest between Democratic Senator John F. Tunney and Republican S.I. Hayakawa is certainly not an anomaly. Hayakawa, a conservative folk-hero from the days of campus unrest, has launched his political casreer at the ripe age of 70. With a tam-o-shanter upon his head as a trademark, the college president travels the state with a bizarre campaign style that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls...
...Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead to widespread labor unrest...
...victim of disabling memories of Harvard as a "place of hatred." His undergraduate career was baptized by a forceful mobbing of then Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara outside Quincy House in the fall of 1966. It was abbreviated finally by the cancellation of exams in the wake of unrest following the invasion of Cambodia...
...counteract such criticisms, the Videla junta has hired a pair of public relations agencies to spread the good news in the U.S. and elsewhere that Argentina's economy is stabilizing and social unrest...