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Aware that a Communist President was not in the cards despite the party's growing national acceptance, the Communists were willing to promote Pertini out of leftist loyalty. In addition, the avuncular, pipe-smoking Socialist, a former speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, was acceptable to the centrist Republicans and Social Democrats who complete the five-party parliamentary majority that supports the government of Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti...
Personally, Burns is by turns aloof and avuncular, pompous and friendly. Few Washington officials stayed further away from the press, or at the same time had more written about them. Enveloped in clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under...
...gruff but avuncular authority figure, Vorster gained votes from both South Africans who want him to safeguard the country against change and those who want him to bring about change safely. In recent weeks there has been a series of incidents-a rash of daylight robberies and attacks in white suburban areas -that has had an unsettling effect on the national psyche. A bomb exploded at rush hour in Johannesburg's leading shopping complex, injuring 19 people. Two weeks ago, a National Party candidate for Parliament, Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home...
...full-scale inquiry," says one Senator on the committee. "Once and for all, we're going to settle this issue. We're going to get to the bottom of the Lance affair." Adds an aide to Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, "Bert's avuncular, easygoing style won't wash this time." Three particular areas of Lance's testimony from previous hearings interest the committee...
Since Callaghan has lost effective control of Parliament, London bookies promptly laid 4-to-5 odds on his defeat. Smart politicians, though, were betting that the avuncular Prime Minister could survive with a vote or so to spare. Since succeeding Harold Wilson a year ago, Callaghan has seen Labor's slim three-vote majority in Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with...