Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what may be the last election under Rhodesia's present constitution, Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front Party won all 50 parliamentary seats reserved for the country's 268,000 whites (the 6.4 million blacks have 16) and 86% of the popular vote. The right-wing Rhodesian Action Party, which had accused Smith of preparing a "capitulation" to some sort of black participation in government, drew only 9% of the vote, while the moderate National Unifying Force received...
...DOOM GLOOM GOBLIN? demanded the posters of the right-wing Rhodesian Action Party. Among the diehard Afrikaner ranchers of Nuanetsi, near Belingwe, the gloom is virtually impenetrable. Last week most farmers there cast their ballots by mail; nowadays they rarely venture far from their fortified homes. Reason: during one terrifying two-week period in July, a different homestead was attacked every day. The Belingwe Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however...
...President, Giscard, among other things, is chief of the armed forces and presides over the Cabinet. Elected in 1974, Giscard is aghast at the prospect of having to deal with left-wing ministers for the rest of his seven-year term. He urges Mitterrand to form a government that would include politicians who are not members of the leftist union. Mitterrand refuses, archly citing "a clear and precise contract" to carry out the left's common program-which calls for sweeping nationalization of private industry, big wage hikes and increased social benefits. Mitterrand, forming his Socialist-Communist Cabinet, appoints...
...Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a staunch antiCommunist, makes an appeal to the nation to sabotage government policies. Confusion spreads. Rumors of a sugar shortage, concocted by conservatives hoping to scar the left, send housewives rushing to stores -thus making the shortage real. Giscard survives an assassination attempt. A right-wing general calls for "resistance" and goes underground. Militant ecologists, aroused over the government's commitment to nuclear weapons and power plants, kidnap the Defense Minister...
...been jailed on charges of embezzling $7 million from her Congress Party's campaign funds. Then last week the investigators landed their biggest catch so far: ex-Defense Minister Bansi Lal, 49, who was arrested on charges of misappropriating $60,000 from the party's youth wing...