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...Wednesday morning Carter had slightly blurred the speech, disappointing the hawkish faction among his White House advisers, who feared that the Soviets would view it as mostly rhetoric. One of the President's aides took consolation in describing the speech as "forcefully ambiguous." Vance was also unhappy with the rhetoric, but for a different reason. According to a close associate, he was concerned that the language was too flamboyant, giving the impression that Carter was overreacting and raising the danger that he would not be able to deliver on his threat of repelling a Soviet assault in the Persian Gulf...
...disbanded.) Insofar as U.S. diplomats and intelligence experts focused on Afghanistan at all, they made two miscalculations. First, they believed that the Soviets' desire to preserve detente would restrain them in Afghanistan. Second, they had long since written off Babrak Karmal and his comrades in the pro-Soviet faction, whom the more independent Marxists ruling in Kabul had purged or driven into East European exile. Even in the early fall of last year, when an interagency intelligence report seriously raised the possibility that the Soviets might launch a full-scale "pacification" campaign in order to prevent Afghanistan from becoming...
...election that made Gandhi's re-emergence possible has come about as the result of a tangled political crisis that began last summer, when India's ruling Janata Party split in two. The leader of the breakaway Lok Dal faction, Charan Singh, was named Prime Minister of a shaky coalition government. But when Gandhi withdrew her party's support, parliament had to be dissolved. With Singh remaining in office temporarily as caretaker Prime Minister, a new general election was called 21/2 years ahead of schedule...
...country's 361 million registered voters prepared to go to the polls on Jan. 3 and 6, pre-election pundits were betting that neither Gandhi's faction of the Congress Party nor Ram's shattered Janata Party would win a clear majority in parliament. Analysts estimated that out of the 528 parliamentary seats, the two parties could each win about 200 seats, while Lok Dal might capture about 60. In that case, Gandhi and Ram would have to scramble for new adherents among the smaller political parties to see which one might be able to form...
...townsman alike to form "leagues" to advance their common purposes. Armorers did a brisk business in swords, helmets and arquebuses, forerunners of the musket. In February 1579 the drapers of Romans paraded with weapons and elected a burly colleague, Paumier, as their festival chief. He also became the factional leader of angry craftsmen, tradesmen and plowmen. Soon there were two governments in Romans: Paumier and his followers had seized control of the city gates, a vital link to leaguers in the countryside. By the latter part of 1579, butchers and bakers were defiantly withholding taxes. Daringly and, as it turned...