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...current session closed and his immunity ended. To forestall this, the Center Union Party introduced a motion to extend the immunity to cover the period between Parliament's adjournment this month and the May elections. Kanellopoulos and his rightist National Radical Union balked at this plan and withdrew their support from the caretaker government. That brought it down...
...contestants: Indira Gandhi, who has held the position since the death of Lai Bahadur Shastri 14 months ago, and Morarji Desai, 71, the flinty former Finance Minister who was also Indira's sole rival in the earlier selection. Last week, bowing to pressures for party unity, Desai withdrew from the race, thus virtually assuring Indira's election this week by the Congress Party to a full five-year term as Prime Minister. As a reward, Desai was promised the portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister in Indira's new Cabinet. Said Desai: "We must work...
...scratch a new government able to rule the vast reaches of Russia proved far more difficult. The Duma committee had included every shade of political color, from socialists to disaffected aristocracy. To head the first provisional government that followed. Prince Lvov, a liberal nobleman, was chosen. The Bolsheviks soon withdrew their tacit support from this "bourgeois" government, and Lenin hurried back to Petrograd to organize his attack. By July 2 he had mounted a sufficiently impressive uprising of sailors and workers to cow Prince Lvov into resigning...
...Federation of Democratic Socialists, the third largest party. Under the pact, the candidate, either Communist or Socialist, who had more votes in the first election or stood the better chance of beating the Gaullist man became the candidate of both leftist parties in the runoff. Accordingly, the Communists withdrew their candidates in 159 districts, while Mitterrand's people withdrew in 124. Few observers expected the alliance of the left to last past the election...
...planned the alliance they assumed that the leftist candidate with the most votes would continue into the final-round and all others would withdraw. In many districts, however, a Communist polled more votes than a moderate socialist yet still had no chance of winning even if the other leftists withdrew. The leaders of the left assumed that while most Communists would vote in the second round for a socialist, there were thousands, perhaps millions, of socialists who would vote for a Gaullist before they would vote for a Communist...