Word: government
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Rojas aboard a Colombian DC-4 bound for exile in Spain, the junta got to work. Calling in Opposition Leaders Valencia and Lleras Camargo, they began organizing a civilian Cabinet to help govern the country until next year's elections. At week's end, with the list drawn up, Bogotá was almost back to normal. Only one Colombian seemed to have completely missed the significance of the uprising. In Bermuda, where he stopped over with his wife and family, Rojas was asked what caused his downfall. "There was no revolution," he said. "I decided to turn...
...Premier of his Emergency Cabinet, Sukarno designated Dr. Djuanda, 45, a soft-spoken and widely respected banker, engineer and government planner who has served in 12 posts in the 16 preceding Cabinets that have tried, all unsuccessfully, to govern Indonesia since 1945. When Djuanda returned from a visit to Peking two years ago, he said: "Red China's claim of ability to extend economic or technical aid to Indonesia is nothing but a hoax...
...when the vote was tallied: "I am very happy and moved that a majority would accept appointment to an Emergency Cabinet post." Now he could get on with his promised introduction of what he calls "guided democracy," instead of the Western-style parliamentary democracy which had. admittedly, failed to govern the country effectively...
...weeks hard-driving Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's portly, pink-faced Minister of Economics, had been looking forward to the day when he would fly off to New York to lecture at Columbia University. Almost alone among the men who govern Western Europe Erhard openly doubted the economic wisdom of the proposed European Common Market ("There is no economic sense in creating an island of protection in Europe"). The New York visit, he figured, would give him a fine chance to disabuse Americans of what he considered their excessive enthusiasm for the project...
...minefield through which authority, great and small, and at every level of policy and administration, must step warily, conscious always that a false step may blow it up. The estate of journalism is a dangerous one. It exists as a force in society to remind all those who govern that systems are made...