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...questioned. "He is above corruption," says a political opponent. "He never believed in torture. He never sought power for power's sake. He is a real man of the people." Nyerere has abjured personal wealth, and throughout his presidency collected a salary that was lower than that of his Cabinet ministers. The road between the state-house and Nyerere's modest home in Dar es Salaam's Msasani district is said to be full of potholes. When asked why he had not ordered it repaired, Nyerere reportedly answered, "Why should I have a good road to go to work...
...expectation was palpable last week outside the gates at the presidential Malacaņang Palace in the capital city of Manila. Participants arriving for a specially scheduled Cabinet meeting and a caucus of the ruling New Society Movement (K.B.L.) began queuing up at the palace an hour and a half early. At last, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos called on his ministers to endorse their main item of business: Cabinet Bill No. 7, a call for elections to choose a President and Vice President on Jan. 17, 1986, 16 months ahead of schedule. The order was approved within seconds...
...President had already met in emergency session with his Cabinet. Their decision: no negotiations. Late Wednesday night soldiers set two explosive charges that destroyed large sections of the Justice building, sent 30-foot flames shooting into the air and may have killed many of the 100 siege victims. Early the next morning, the terrorists released Justice Reinaldo Arcienagas with a proposal for a cease-fire and truce. The government refused. The surviving guerrillas apparently realized that their situation was hopeless and reportedly began shooting the judges in cold blood...
...third time in six weeks, the stalemate over Gramm-Rudman nearly paralyzed the Government. The amendment, a rigid formula for budget cutting that has aroused concern even within the President's Cabinet, is attached to a bill to raise the national-debt ceiling to more than $2 trillion. Congress was faced with the threat of the Government going bankrupt in a matter of days unless the debt limit was increased. Failing once again to reach a compromise on Gramm-Rudman, the legislators granted the Government a one-month extension on its borrowing power. Upshot: by Dec. 12, Congress...
...Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem to attend a memorial service on the third anniversary of the death of his wife Aliza. The former Israeli Prime Minister had not been seen in public since a similar service last year, and some 200 people, including seven Cabinet ministers from his Likud bloc, gathered to pray and pay their respects. After the 15-minute service, Begin answered well-wishers and old friends with only a single vacant repetition of "Shalom." His appearance dispelled rumors that he was bedridden, but it confirmed anew the deep melancholy of the man who has become Israel...