Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant $13 billion industrial complex, complained that normal parliamentary life is being displaced by agreement at the top between the Christian Democrats and the Communists. In the future, he said, if Italy is to avoid outright authoritarian rule, it may be forced to settle for a vague extraparliamentary modus vivendi, arranged among what he calls the "real social forces," such as the trade unions, industry, the Ministry of the Interior and the police ranks. The risk of such a "deteriorated form of democracy," he said, is that it could deteriorate further into something like the Peronism of Argentina...
...major parties do fail to find any new modus vivendi after Andreotti's expected resignation, the only option is early elections. The prospect, risky as it might be, did not bother many Christian Democrats as much as the step-by-inexorable-step Communist advance on power. But elections would doubtless be a trauma that neither Communist nor Christian Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy...
...North, the church has long been forced to pursue a modus vivendi with the Communists. As Vicar Apostolic of Hanoi since 1950, and archbishop since 1960, Trin presided over much of that accommodation. The job has its uncertainties. Said he after his investiture: "I hope that they believe me when I tell them that I did not know the reason for my call to Rome...
Cyprus has a long history of conflict between the Greek majority and Turkish minority who inhabit it. Too of ten in recent times, the Turks have been second-class citizens. But under the rule of Archbishop Makarios, a reasonable if at times precarious modus vivendi had been achieved, and an independent Cyprus was prospering. Then a year ago, the junta of Greek colonels who governed Athens and whom the U.S. supported fomented a coup on Cyprus. It was led by 650 Greek military officers commanding the 10,000-man Cypriot national guard. The Turks, suspecting that the intent...
...another reservation about détente. They are worried that a "superpower condominium" will settle major issues without consulting them. Former French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, for instance, believed that détente was not really a relaxation of tensions but an equilibrium of power, "a kind of modus vivendi in the management of world affairs between the U.S. and the Soviet Union." Jobert was probably right, at least in part, but the Europeans cannot realistically expect an equal voice with Moscow and Washington