Word: cabineteer
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...TRAINING. Now that the voters have spoken, the A.N.C. will dominate the five-year life of the new government of national unity. It will share the Cabinet at least with the National Party; De Klerk is expected to be a Deputy President...
Under the interim constitution, any of the 19 parties on the ballot that receives at least 5% of the vote is entitled to a seat in the new Cabinet. In any case, as one of his confidence-building measures, Mandela intends to keep present Minister of Finance Derek Keys and Central Bank director Chris Stals in his government of national unity. Keys is an optimist about the transition. "From an economic point of view," he says, "I think it is going to work very well." Even so, Keys is worried that the A.N.C. development plan was put together...
FAULT LINES. Once Mandela's Cabinet is announced, the unity government is likely to show significant lines of stress. It will probably include Communist Party chairman Joe Slovo -- an interesting prospect for white officials who long used the fear of communist encirclement to justify apartheid policies. No fewer than 16 of the top 50 names on the A.N.C. parliamentary election list are members of the Communist Party. While they have forsworn Stalinism, Slovo still argues that "only under socialism could you have a combination of political and economic democracy...
Another brewing problem is the possibility that Mandela's estranged wife Winnie might get a minor Cabinet post. Though she was convicted in the kidnapping of a township youth who was later murdered, she scored an upset last year in winning election as head of the A.N.C. Women's League. This year the party put her high on its list for a parliamentary seat...
...19th century Russian empire's borders, for which Zhirinovsky has an oft-stated fondness. Also Monday: A British newspaper reported that he had gathered a group of psychics to help find Prince Charles' missing Jack Russell terrier, Pooh; they failed. Wednesday: Demanded that the entire Russian Cabinet resign in the wake of a parliamentary Deputy's murder, possibly by gangsters. When other Deputies called for the firing of the Interior Minister, who is responsible for state security, the Premier asked if they had a replacement in mind. "Me, me!" Zhirinovsky shouted. He also demanded that Deputies be allowed to carry...