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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark's shaky new government. In two by-elections last week, Conservative candidates were defeated, thereby shaving the Tories' working majority in the 282-member House of Commons to a razor-thin one vote. The Conservatives have narrowly turned back three recent votes of noconfidence, but it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A Softy Says Farewell | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Lévesque's Parti Québécois, it now appears, could lose the referendum. In three by-elections to the provincial Parliament two weeks ago, candidates were decisively defeated by Liberals, whose leader in Quebec, Claude Ryan, is an unbending opponent of separatism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A Softy Says Farewell | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

So far, South African blacks have reacted skeptically to Botha's proposals. Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches: "He is talking about applying an inhuman system more humanely. Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Putting a Pretty Face on Apartheid | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

A. You cannot compare them with the Republic of South Africa. South West Africa does not belong to the Republic of South Africa. We were only the mandatory force. We accepted that if Rhodesia wants to become a new state on the principle of one-man, one-vote, we won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Putting a Pretty Face on Apartheid | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

That someone from the '30s was Anthony Blunt, 72, the Queen's former art curator and an unmasked Soviet spy, who had emerged from hiding to tell his side of a story that has blossomed into Britain's most dramatic spy scandal in years. Escorted by his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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