Word: weeks
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...squabbling factions in the National Assembly were unable to agree on a new government. So last summer Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes, called an election in hope that a "coherent" left-of-center government would emerge. It was not to be. Last week, when a record 87.5% of the electorate went to the polls, the vote instead went narrowly to a new center-right coalition called the Democratic Alliance. Its leader, Francisco Sá Carneiro, 45, an ambitious, sometimes abrasive, conservative lawyer-politician, is expected to be named Premier...
...this fall, Ireland's Prime Minister Jack Lynch sounded like a crusader. He denounced American supporters of the Irish Republican Army and castigated "evil men of violence" for prolonging the bloodshed in the North. As it turned out, that was Lynch's valedictory. Last week, in a surprise move, he abruptly resigned after 13 years as leader of the Fianna Fáil Party and a total of nine years as Prime Minister. His successor: Health and Social Welfare Minister Charles Haughey, 54, a wealthy accountant with pronounced republican sympathies...
Lynch had been expected to resign, but not quite so soon. He wanted to give his successor time to prepare for the next election. However, last week a Fianna Fáil member raised a question in Parliament about the party's defeat in two November by-elections in Lynch's native County Cork. That was the second humiliation this year: in June, Fianna Fáil was trounced in an election of delegates to the European Parliament. These reversals came on top of a number of economic woes that also undermined Lynch: high inflation (14%), soaring interest...
...Health and Welfare Minister since 1977, Haughey did not publicly oppose Lynch's moderate policies. But the affable politician, a deputy from a Dublin constituency, took care to make friends in the republican counties whose deputies backed him last week...
That triumphant homecoming last week followed swiftly on a dramatic policy reversal by the Israeli government. Jerusalem had suddenly released the popular mayor from prison and rescinded the expulsion order imposed on him for allegedly having spoken out in support of Palestinian terrorism. It was a dramatic finale to an embarrassing episode that had drawn wide international criticism of Israel and confused the Middle East peace process with Egypt. The Jerusalem Post hailed the freeing of Shaka'a as "a triumph for common sense...