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...National Assembly Rabah Bitat, 53, a member of the eight-man Council of the Revolution and one of the firebrands who played a pivotal role in ousting the French in 1962. Three years later, Bitat joined Boumedienne's government after the bloodless overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. The constitution limits Bitat to a 45-day term of office, during which the F.L.N. is supposed to choose a candidate and present him to the people for election...
...F.L.N. Outside the council, the name most often mentioned is that of Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 52, military commander of the Oran region, who took over as "coordinator" of the armed forces during Boumedienne's long illness. Virtually no chance at all is given to the long deposed Ben Bella. At 62, he is living in comfortable house arrest...
Tomas Harlan, director of the film "Torre Bella," a documentary on the Portugese Revolution, who helped invite Carvalho to MIT, said yesterday Carvalho received a visa from the United States but was summoned later by Cardosa who told Carvalho that he did not want Carvalho creating publicity by visiting the United States. Cardosa added that if Carvalho should try to leave the country, he would be arrested immediately, Harlan reported...
...woman inside." As Susan and Martin Tolchin wrote in their book Clout?Womanpower and Politics, "The smoke-filled rooms, bour-bon-and-branch-water rites and all-night poker games exclude women from the fellowship and cronyism that seal the bonds of power." Says former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
...Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions of femininity. Says she: "If I were a man, they would have said I was strong, courageous and a leader. Instead, I was called abrasive and aggressive." Washington Pollster Peter Hart finds that...