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In 1970, Whitlam, as Leader of the Opposition, had stated of a budget bill, " Let me make it clear at the outset that our opposition to this Budget is no mere formality.
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At the 1970 state elections the Liberals seemed in serious danger of losing office, or at least being forced into a coalition with the Country Party, but Bolte was saved by Holding's left-wing enemies in the Labor Party, who sabotaged his campaign by publicly opposing government funding for non-government schools ( which Holding and Gough Whitlam had made Labor policy ).
In 1970, the Participants formed an alliance with the federal Labor leader Gough Whitlam and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Bob Hawke, to bring about intervention in the Victorian branch by the Federal Executive.
1970 and Leader
In 1970, then-House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford defined the criterion as he saw it: " An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
On 8 July 1970, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the Common Market, while the party opposed it.
Jenkins was also subsequently elected to the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in July 1970, defeating future Labour Leader Michael Foot and former Leader of the Commons Fred Peart at the first ballot.
Avalon Hill's PanzerBlitz ( 1970 ), Panzer Leader ( 1974 ), and Squad Leader ( 1977 ) were particularly popular during this time, with their innovative geomorphic mapboard system.
Sir Edward Richard George " Ted " Heath, KG, MBE, PC ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1970 – 74 ) and as Leader of the Conservative Party ( 1965 – 75 ).
When the Conservatives returned to power in 1970 under Edward Heath, Whitelaw was made Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, with a seat in the cabinet.
He was elected as a " reform Democrat " in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as Majority Leader.
Senator Walter F. Mondale, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, went to Uvalde on July 30, 1970, and criticized city officials in an interview published in the Uvalde Leader News.
He was Leader of the House of Lords from 1968 to 1970, and subsequently Opposition Leader of the House of Lords.
Several leading politicians for Høyre began their political careers as mayors of Oppegård, including Rolf Presthus ( mayor from 1968 – 1970, Conservative Party Leader and Minister of Finance ) and Jan Petersen ( mayor from 1975-1981, Conservative Party Leader and Minister of Foreign Affairs ).
EMS was the Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1970 to 1977.
A six-and-a-half-minute edit of " Turn On Your Lovelight " was issued first on Warner / Reprise Loss Leader album The Big Ball in 1970, and later on Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead.
He was not offered a post when the Conservatives won the 1970 general election, but instead served as Leader of the United Kingdom delegation to the Council of Europe and Western European Union until 1972 when he announced his retirement.
* Edward Gierek, Polish Leader from Decade 1970 – 1980
Donald C. MacDonald, CCF / NDP Leader from 1953 to 1970.
In 1970, the positions of Leader of the Labour Party and Chairman of the PLP were permanently split.
He was first elected to Parliament in 1959, and was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1970 – 1972, then Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council until February 1974.
He was an Opposition whip from 1964 and served under Edward Heath as Government Chief Whip ( 1970 – 73 ) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ( 1973 – 74 ), and Margaret Thatcher as Defence Secretary ( 1979 – 81 ), Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council ( 1981 – 82 ).
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC ( 2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985 ) was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s.
In the 1970 general election, Mullin, aged 22, stood unsuccessfully against Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe in North Devon.
1970 and Opposition
Among the more challenging political dilemmas Wilson faced during his two terms in government and his two spells in Opposition before 1964 and between 1970 and 1974 was the issue of British membership of the European Community, the forerunner of the present European Union.
* Gordon, CT-The Growth of Boer Opposition to Kruger ( 1890 – 1895 ), Oxford University Press, ( 1970 )
After the 1970 leadership convention, Stephen Lewis became leader, and guided the party to Official Opposition status in 1975, the first time since the Ontario CCF did it twice in the 1940s.
After his government ’ s defeat Lloyd became Leader of the Opposition a post he held until 1970 when Allan Blakeney was elected leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.
As part of the compromise of 1970, agreed upon by the main political parties representing the two major communities, a Senate was established with 22 members, with 8 nominated by the Great Council of Chiefs, 7 by the Prime Minister, 6 by the Leader of the Opposition, and 1 by the Council of Rotuma.
Following the election, Corcoran became Deputy Opposition Leader under Don Dunstan and upon Labor's victory at the 1970 election, he returned to the Deputy Premiership and assumed the Marine and Harbours and Public Works portfolios.
vice-president of PEST ( Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism ); and deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lords 1967 – 1970.
The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780 – 1840 ( 1970 )
After leaving office in 1970, he set up his own estate agency until he ran in the February 20, 1972 presidential election under a political grouping called the United National Opposition ( UNO ).
Following the expected loss to the Dunstan-led ALP in the 2 June 1970 election, Hall remained Leader of the Opposition for two years before resigning from the LCL, claiming that the party had ' lost its idealism forgotten ... its purpose for existence '.
In the wake of the LCL's 1970 election loss, Millhouse was elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition on 2 June but resigned from the party on 18 March 1973 to form the Liberal Movement following growing dissatisfaction at the continuing conservatism of the LCL.
She was elected to the House of Assembly in 1970 and became Opposition Leader in 1975.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) became the Opposition on its formation on 21 August 1970 but that party withdrew from Stormont in July 1971.
Opposition to his fair housing activism resulted in his losing a 1966 judicial election, but he became a judge of the Cook County Circuit Court in 1970.
" Opposition to the massive residential displacement that this development project would have caused, and the failure of the City to complete any replacement housing, led the State Legislature to kill the convention center proposal in 1970.
At a London conference in April 1970, however, the Chief Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara of the mainly indigenous Fijian Alliance and Opposition Leader Sidiq Koya of the NFP agreed to a compromise: a 52-member House of Representatives would be established, with 27 communal and 25 national constituencies.
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Driven by deep personal and political convictions, Grothendieck left the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, where he had been appointed professor and accomplished his greatest work, after a dispute over military funding in 1970.
The Falcons had their first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season.
The island had 22 municipalities until March 1970, of which 6 were market cities and 16 parish municipalities.
In 1970, he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court and renamed them the Milwaukee Brewers after minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1952.
The ethnography collections, which had been housed in the short-lived Museum of Mankind at 6 Burlington Gardens from 1970, were returned to new purpose-built galleries.
From 1971 to 1975, BJU admitted only married blacks, although the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) had already determined in 1970 that " private schools with racially discriminatory admissions policies " were not entitled to federal tax exemption.
On January 19, 1976, the Internal Revenue Service notified the university that its tax exemption had been revoked retroactively to December 1, 1970.
In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.
On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).
This procedure had previously been a near-formality, yet became quite fraught in 1970.
The Combo law was supported by both major parties at the time ( PLN and PUSC ) as well as by President Rodriguez, but the first of three required legislative votes to approve it provoked the largest protest demonstrations the country had seen since 1970.
By 1974, another challenge to the state's authority and legitimacy had come from 19 April Movement ( M-19 ), a mostly urban guerrilla group founded allegedly in response to an electoral fraud during the final National Front election of Misael Pastrana ( 1970 – 1974 ) and the defeat of former dictator Gustavo Rojas.
By 1970, they had tentatively identified more than 50.
The new facility had to be ready by the opening of the 1970 NFL season and was officially named Riverfront Stadium.
The Valley Club ( CAFC Supporters Club ) was situated in Harvey Gardens behind the North Stand, and was managed by licensee Ray Donn from 1970 – 1984 the club had a full club licence supplying food and drink to its members and guests during match days and live entertainment, with cabaret and dancing every night of the week.
The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League ( AFL ) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.
Whereas 20, 000 freshmen had matriculated in one CUNY institution or another in 1969, more than 35, 000 showed up for registration in the fall of 1970.
Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels ( computer mouse-), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, a few years earlier.
The 1970 World Conference concluded that several sections that had been added between the 1835 and 1844 editions — mainly dealing with the subjects of temple worship and baptism for the dead — had been published without proper approval of a church conference.
By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.
In 1970, the entire fishing industry in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, and Lake Erie had to be closed due to toxic levels of mercury found in the water.
The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.
Both Bhutto and Mujib strongly disliked General Khan, but patiently endured him and his government as he had promised to hold an election in 1970.
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