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...Labor, however, may drop from 51 seats to 41, while Yadin's new party could get twelve to 14 seats. If these projections hold, Peres almost certainly will have to form a unity government of all parties, or at least a coalition with the Likud, whose blunt campaign slogan is to give "not one inch" of the occupied territories, A squabbling, hang-tough government headed by the hawkish Peres would not be a promising participant in any negotiations. Said an Egyptian diplomat: "If their government is a weak coalition, forget about Geneva and peace for this year...
Polite Police. For months, the Clamshell Alliance, a Portsmouth-based organization founded by New England antinuclear groups, had been planning its strategy and training volunteers in the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Then the alliance marshaled its forces and took the offensive. As the main body of slogan-chanting demonstrators converged on the main gate of the Seabrook site, another group advanced on the area across a salt marsh. A third force arrived in boats piloted by local lobster-men-who fear that the discharge from the plant would cut their catches-and waded ashore. By the evening of the first...
...defeat last month. But now that the celebration is over, India, unlike Munchkinland, has to face the most crucial question: how will the new government differ from the old one? Will it improve the government or break down because of the factionalism that Gandhi suggested in her campaign slogan 'Stability or Chaos...
...break is Dukakis himself, who offered to make him secretary of transportation in 1974. Frank claims that the far-reaching social programs started under Francis W. Sargent, Dukakis's predecessor, were approved with the understanding that taxes would be raised in 1975 to pay fog them. Campaigning with the slogan of "No new taxes," Dukakis delayed a tax increase for 11 months in 1975, despite a $700 million deficit. The governor slashed human services to balance the budget, and has run a pro-business, austerity-minded administration. Frank notes, "Unlike White, Dukakis went to the right early and pulled...
...needed to create jobs. Yet the Nixon and Ford administrations were unable to devise plans that Congress was willing to accept for stretching out supplies. Nixon's Project Independence, aimed at making the U.S. self-sufficient in fuel by 1980, was never more than an unrealistic and empty slogan...