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...Italian authorities, Buscetta slipped back into Palermo with a false passport. The reason for his return: to help his gang and its allies regain the control that had been wrested from it by Luciano Liggio, a tough crime boss from Corleone, one of the traditional Mafia strongholds in western Sicily...
Will the Liberal Party be able to regain its traditional terrain? This is the essential question of the election. Will this defeat be the start of a permanent realignment in favor of the Conservative Party or will it be a temporary outburst like the avalanche that elected John Diefenbaker...
...REGAIN ITS POSITION as the dominant party in the land, three conditions must apply...
After three years of political exile, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has become the first former President since the Fifth Republic wa; founded in 1958 to regain a seat in the National Assembly. Giscard, who was defeated by François Mitterrand in 1981 , captured an impressive 63% of the vote in the department of Puy-de-Dôme regaining a seat he had held repeatedly since 1956. The winner who has made no secret of his desire to be the center-right presidential candidate in 1988, proclaimed his "victory of reason...
...sizable portion of the U.S. machine of government: 33 Senate seats, all 435 House seats and 13 governorships, as well as thousands of local jobs. The Democrats, starting out with a 99-vote majority in the House and 35 of the 50 gubernatorial prizes, are hoping to regain control of the Senate, which they lost in 1980 for the first time in 28 years. The G.O.P. now has an edge of ten seats. The Republicans are counting on good economic times and Ronald Reagan's popularity to translate into major gains for their candidates. Their goals include not only...