Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Feder and Laszlo Pasztor '73, president of the Harvard YAF, expressed support for a massive petition campaign to save the two hijackers from execution in Russia...
...appoint the chiefs of the armed services, he refused to consider the matter: "I am an intransigent defender of the prerogatives of the chief of state." This time the Christian Democrats were ready to fight, and there were reports that President Frei's forces were trying to gain support for an alliance with Alessandri's National Party...
...consider a constitutional amendment incorporating all the C.D.P. demands except one rescinding the President's right to make military appointments. It was a thin concession on Allende's part, but it was enough to swing the C.D.P. In a session at week's end, the party agreed to support Allende unanimously. Barring an unlikely military coup or even more unlikely outside intervention, he will be inaugurated Chile's next President...
...Growing Support. It was only a few days after Sihanouk was deposed last March that those Cambodians who had long wanted to replace the monarchy with a republic began implementing their plans. Pictures of Sihanouk's mother, Queen Kossamak, a nonruling monarch but a symbol of royal permanence, were quickly stripped from government buildings. Pictures of Sihanouk were defaced or destroyed. When Lon Nol's government polled Cambodians on whether the monarchy should be abolished and replaced with a republic, the answer was reported to be an overwhelming yes. For all that, Lon Nol felt that the time...
...prevails. But Lon Nol seems to have impressed many of his countrymen with his honesty and courage. Deputy Premier Sisowath Sirik Matak has won respect as a shrewd and sophisticated politician, and the government is no longer seen as a here-today, gone-tonight proposition. Particularly noteworthy is the support it enjoys among Cambodia's embryonic professional and middle classes, and among the country's students...