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Most of the major Sudanese parties profess nonalignment with the superpowers and avow unity within the Arab world. The leading contenders in the elections, the Umma Party and the Democratic Unionist Party, share traditional religious roots. Neither, however, is as militant as the National Islamic Front, which pushed Nimeiri to adopt the strict Islamic law that mandated punishments like amputating the hands of thieves. The party and its charismatic leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, still have a large constituency among the poor and the young. But analysts predict that the Umma Party, lead by former Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi...
Galbraith said at the time that his $50,000 gift, intended to support the award for ten years, reflected his "faith in the competition and financial incentives that economists avow" and concern that complaints, "valid or otherwise," had been made concerning the quality of graduate-level teaching in the Economics department...
...North Carolina, Ford declared that he will win the G.O.P. nomination whether Reagan withdraws his candidacy or not, and flatly denied that he had authorized anyone on his staff to "suggest to my opponent that he ought to get out of the race." Ford did avow, however, that Reagan's continued efforts could have a divisive effect on the party...
...everyday behavior of man in society may in fact have very little to do with one another. As householders, parents, and teachers, we maintain implicit allegiance to the older moral order of "sincerity"--of social harmony, peace, and coherence; as participants in the life of the mind, we now avow a more modern ideal of alienation and strife--the "authenticity" of the anti-social and disintegrated consciousness...
...days. The 15th anniversary of McCarthy's death was marked last week with a Requiem High Mass in Milwaukee followed by a graveside service and a luncheon in Appleton the next day. About 40 members of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation gathered to hear the Rev. Raymond Vint avow that "history will unerringly find him his proper place in the estimation of the nation he served...