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...forge an agreement that may lead to Patriotic Front participation in new elections and an end to the bloody seven-year civil war. With a stable majority-rule government in Salisbury, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could lift the 13-year-old economic sanctions against Britain's breakaway colony when they expire in November. On the eve of his departure for the peace talks, Muzorewa (along with former Prime Minister Ian Smith) gave an unmistakable sign that he intends to keep up the fight to retain his power: he launched the biggest cross-border strike of the war, a devastating...
...assassins. "After the Irish National Liberation Army killed M.P. Airey Neave [last March]," said Mason, "the Provos felt they had been made to look incompetent. Apart from the Provos' own cause, they have now been whipped into a new frenzied aim of neutralizing the success of the breakaway militant faction, the I.N.L.A...
...just three days before Iranians began electing the 73 members of a constituent assembly who are to approve a new constitution that Khomeini and others have drawn up as the blueprint for an Islamic republic. He said he welcomed the boycott of the election by such groups as the breakaway Democratic National Front and supporters of Kazem Sharietmadari, a nationally popular ayatullah, but had had no advance knowledge of their intentions...
...support, a branch of the divided Congress Party, holds only 77 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
...strident tone of Khomeini's address suggested that he may be worried about increasing criticism of his autocratic and erratic leadership of the country's unfinished revolution. Last week an open letter by the National Democratic Front, a breakaway political movement from the larger National Front, all but accused Khomeini of being a dictator. "Prior to the revolution's success," the letter read, " 'unity of word' in your opinion was unity of purpose in overthrowing the monarchy. But now it practically means 'unity in obedience to me.' " The NDF, which...