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Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer and other Communist leaders insisted that henceforth they would settle for nothing less than "a presence in the government"-meaning seats in a future Cabinet. Berlinguer's position was that he had earned few benefits from a tacit collaboration with the Christian Democrats. Indeed, the Communists complained that they had been blamed for unpopular government decisions without having gained any real power...
...subscription had been allowed to lapse, we called Monsignor James F. Rigney, secretary to the late Cardinal and now rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and inquired if we might resume delivery. "How can we say no?" replied the monsignor. "It would be like turning down apple pie." Henceforth Terence Cardinal Cooke will receive this particular worldly possession of his predecessor...
...revolutionary changes that have occurred in the travel business, the 108-member International Air Transport Association (IATA) abandoned its 33-year-old role as the industry's fare fixing cartel. It also gave up its authority to regulate in-flight meals, drinks and enter tainment, and will henceforth confine itself to such noncompetitive matters as safety standards, security and ticket exchange arrangements...
...series of radio broadcasts falsely claiming that his country had been invaded by neighboring Tanzania, Big Daddy announced that a 2,000-man Ugandan force had made a "record in world history" by occupying a 710-sq.-mi. patch of Tanzanian territory in "the supersonic speed of 25 minutes." Henceforth, Amin declared, ''all Tanzanians in the area must know that they are under direct rule by the Conqueror of the British Empire"-one of several modest sobriquets that Amin uses to describe his ample (300 lbs.) self...
...Ossietzky, a German soldier turned peace activist who attacked the rising might of the Nazis and his country's secret rearmament. When Von Ossietzky won the prize in 1935, he was in a Nazi concentration camp; Adolf Hitler was so enraged by the decision that he forbade Germans henceforth to accept the Peace Prize...