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...effort to bring his government back on course, Mulroney is expected to reshuffle some Cabinet jobs. To replace Blais-Grenier and to continue to assure French-speaking Canadians that their voices are heard at Cabinet sessions, he will probably give at least one more important portfolio to a French speaker. He intends moreover to sell off other unprofitable government corporations, even if such sales cause some local and, he hopes, temporary unemployment...
...described herself as an "exotic dancer." Fisheries Minister John Fraser resigned early last September in the furor that followed a television program's disclosure that he had allowed tainted tuna to be sold to Canadian consumers. And a few days later, Communications Minister Marcel Masse had to leave the Cabinet (he has since returned) while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated alleged irregularities in campaign spending...
...matter to international arbitration, as advocated by Mubarak. His coalition partner, Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, would probably go along with him because Shamir is anxious to avoid a clash that could jeopardize his chance of taking over as Prime Minister in October as scheduled. Some Likud Cabinet members oppose this solution, which they regard as giving in to Egyptian pressure. But after Peres threatened last week to resign if a decision is not reached soon, it appeared likely that the threat of a government crisis would produce a consensus...
...bear the costs of sudden prosperity, Burma has remained serenely on the geopolitical sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped up its dealings with China, just a shade, and edged away from the Soviet Union a little. Generally, however, it remains equally indifferent to both East and West: a founding member of the non-aligned movement, Burma was the first to quit...
BRITAIN The Cabinet and the Choppers...