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...heart from Mugabe is self-destructive; participating in unwinnable elections weakens the MDC and disillusions its supporters. Why risk life and limb for a hopeless cause? The MDC’s hopeless campaigns only legitimize the ZANU-PF’s dictatorship; an impotent opposition provides Zimbabwe with the fa??§ade of a democracy...
...behind this fa??ade, the President's larger team is badly divided. Ever since Reagan took office in 1981, the search for a realistic arms-control package has been seriously hampered by incessant bureaucratic infighting. Philosophical disputes have also muddied the Administration's broader Soviet policy. The President, airily detached from the daily power struggles within his Administration, has been unwilling to step in to resolve the arguments. His advisers, fiercely turf conscious and suspicious of each other, have been unable to settle their differences among themselves...
...meantime, the two opposition leaders most likely to head an anti-Marcos ticket mounted a fa??ade of unity. Undeclared Candidate Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 52, the widow of the late senator, made a surprise appearance at Manila International Airport to greet Salvador Laurel upon his return from a trip to the U.S. Laurel, 57, is leader of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization, which accounts for 37 of the 59 Assembly seats held by the opposition. As cameras snapped, Laurel leaned forward to kiss Aquino, who backed away. That evening over brandy and tea during a two-hour meeting at Aquino...
...natty and sporting a pencil mustache; in his late 30s he raised a bushy, patriarchal beard. When he was excited, his high, piercing voice had a tendency to rise in volume and exaggerate his Tennessee twang. For the most part, though, he kept his inner fires banked behind a fa??ade of polite aloofness...
What takes place in front of the pasteboard fa??ades? Many unconnected things. Martin senses that his behavior with the two sisters is a mite unusual: "I tried to feel peculiar about being married to one and sleeping with the other, but it didn't work." Then his soon to be ex-wife shows up at the motel. So does Dominica's former husband Mel, who may be the one who has spread glass on her beachfront and menaced her in other ominous and anonymous ways. On the other hand, Mel may be innocent. His brother Minnie arrives, bearing...