Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections from December until next April would endanger Namibia's security, and the proposed increase from 3,000 to 7,500 U.N. peacekeeping troops to supervise the transition period and cease-fire had been decided upon without Pretoria's consultation. Both conditions, in South Africa's view, would favor the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the militant political group that has been engaged in a civil war with South Africa for the past twelve years...
...internal power struggles have dangerously narrowed the government's political base, which is concentrated in a tiny urban and military elite. Support has been further eroded by dismissals of critically scarce but politically suspect management talent in favor of inexperienced loyalists. The former chief of the state airline, for example, now works as a telex operator; the new deputy health minister graduated from Kabul Medical School only last year. Never efficient, the frightened bureaucracy has now been slowed to a camel's pace...
However, the defection of Begin's supporters in the Knesset was more than offset by the affirmative votes from the leftist parties. Labor Party representatives usually spoke in favor fo the peace accords...
Girl Friends might have been a more successful project if Weill had been as true to life with her main characters as she is with her Manhattan settings and her bit parts. She loads the dice so heavily in Susan's favor that one wonders not only where the plot escaped to, but how one friend could be such a gem and the other such a turd. With all that's happening to Susan in her career and romantic life, it's not clear why she would feel such an acute sense of loss over friendship with...
...White House had lobbied heavily in favor of the legislation. Administration officials said the measure was the most important surviving portion of the energy package President Carter submitted to Congress in April...