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...Mugabe's moderate policies have come under bitter attack from radicals like Tekere, who have called for a hard line socialist program and the expropriation of white wealth. There was the potential for a bitter internecine conflict if Mugabe were to allow a white-dominated police and judiciary apparatus to convict Tekere. The fierce, short-tempered nationalist (see box) holds the third high est party rank and commands a loyal following among many of the 25,000 guer rillas who remain in training camps scattered around the country...
...cheering stopped in 1963. As the accidental President, L.B.J. found himself with a liberal apparatus long on promise and short on action. Says Liz Carpenter, then press secretary to Lady Bird: "Kennedy inspired . . . Johnson delivered...
...liberation of Paris in 1944, for instance, separate and competitive Resistance groups, including blocs loyal to De Gaulle and to the Communists, were operating within the city. The squabbling and anarchical governments that misruled France before and after the war were blood cousins to the contentious and political Resistance apparatus, with one difference: the Resistance was a success...
Comaneci was last, and she approached the beam needing a 9.9 to tie Davidova, a 9.95 to win outright. Until this Olympics, she had not scored below 9.95 Son the four-inch wide apparatus, and there seemed no reason why she could not lift her score again. But her knee bent ever so slightly on a difficult 360° rotation, and she lost her balance for a millisecond after a patented front flip with a half twist. Even so, she seemed tinged with gold...
...deepening recession is closing automobile plants; unemployment has gone to 7.8%. Inflation has subverted the traditional apparatus of American hope and self-improvement: hard work and saving. The nation's allies have developed the habit of treating it with public condescension and private contempt. Voters face a choice for President in November that leaves many of them shaking their heads. An uneasy suspicion has formed that the U.S. is about to leave the sweeping interstate highway it has cruised along for more than a generation, and return to a two-lane blacktop. Or worse. That is a heretical direction...