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That puts Debré right where he wants to be, bidding against Pompidou to be De Gaulle's No. 1 collaborator. Few people in Paris think that he can unseat Pompidou as De Gaulle's choice for President chiefly because the acerbic, colorless Debré has proved himself virtually unelectable. What may emerge, Elysee theologians believe, is a kind of duumvirate, with the genial Pompidou as a winning President to succeed De Gaulle-and the dour Debré as tough, party-lining Premier...
...Governor Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, who rose from a truck-driver's cab and the captivity of alcoholism to become a successful (and abstemious) Democrat in a traditionally Republican state, announced that he will seek a third two-year term rather than try to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Jack
Defeat came at the hands of a Conservative, Liberal, Christian and Center Party coalition that had been trying for years to unseat Labor, to no avail.In 1961 it came tantalizingly close, winning a 74-74 tie in the Storting (Parliament), but Gerhardsen hung on to a razor's-edge majority with the help of two votes from the leftist Socialist Peoples Party. Two years ago he made a leftward gamble for fresh support: he promised four weeks' vacation for all workers and an old-age pension that. many believed, would put impossible strains on the budget...
...military justification." Rent by bitter rivalries among the national contingents, the Salonika army for months did little except dig trenches, winning Georges Clemenceau's scorn as "the gardeners of Salonika." Commander in Chief Maurice Sarrail of France was a political general who spent far more time intriguing to unseat Greece's King Constantine (who was married to the Kaiser's sister) than in mounting offensives. Sarrail did have one triumph: by wheeling up the French fleet before Piraeus, he forced Constantine's abdication...
...that have helped boost living costs 4%, the biggest six-month gain in 13 years. Meanwhile the tax bite has given the Conservatives a clear edge over Labor in local elections. If Britons were to vote the same way nationally tomorrow, by the Economist's reckoning, they might unseat one-third of all Labor M.P.s and return the Tories to power with a majority of more than...