Word: appointment
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Since Papandreous forces in Parliament remained a majority, the King thereafter had to appoint feeble caretaker governments. Papandreou's eventual successor, Stephan Stephanopoulos (who was also arrested last week), succeeded in whittling the Papandreou majority to a bare plurality by forging a coalition of parties. At the same time, the whole country anxiously awaited the opening of the Aspida trial, in which 28 officers were charged with high treason. The raucous proceedings, which began last November and lasted for four months in an Athens court room, finally resulted in March in conviction and prison sentences for 15 of the defendants...
Under the President's scheme, he would appoint a single commissioner and a nine-man council. Johnson has also promised to introduce a constitutional amendment to give the District a voting member in the House and "such additional representatives in the House and Senate as Congress from time to time may provide...
...Volpe aide feels that the Governor's plan to appoint as Chief Justice of Massachusetts a judge who is not now on the Supreme Judicial Court (the Chief Justice is traditionally appointed from within the SJC) would not hurt his case but won't help...
...Buckley, deputy chairman of the Republican State Committee, granted a Worcester newspaper an interview in which he outlined Republican plans for increasing their numbers in the state legislature. Aside from suggesting that more candidates would be run and more money would be spent, Buckley predicted that Volpe would appoint some Democratic legislators to important, attractive administration posts to get them out of the legislature. Buckley could have been more discreet, but what he said was not particularly shocking. Democrats and Republicans have been using patronage for years to thin enemy ranks...
Garlic & Gold Coins. At the Shah's request, the Iranian Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that will eventually amend Iran's 50-year-old constitution and enable the Shah to appoint a regent-designate to rule if he should die before his son, Crown Prince Reza, now six, becomes 20 years old. His choice for the regency: his wife, Empress Farah, 28, who has presented him with two male heirs (plus a girl) after two previous wives failed to give him a son. The Shah, who has held Iran's Peacock Throne for 26 years without...