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...modern society keeps its humanity when its every move is known. For the most part, the irony of Tolm's character is well realized: privately, he is a decent, doddering family man; publicly, he is an inflammatory symbol in an ideological passion play. But as an ambivalent humanist figurehead for Big Business, he earns little sympathy or credence. It is never clear whether Tolm adequately understands a world where there can be Russian caviar and Cuban cigars on Wall Street and Monopoly sets in the Kremlin...
...after handpicking Aristides Royo, 41, to be a figurehead President, Torrijos started planning for national elections in 1984. But Royo, a former Education Minister, is regarded as too leftist by the general staff of the 10,000-member National Guard, which holds real power in the country. A month ago, some colonels asked Torrijos to depose Royo, but the strongman stuck by his protege. With Torrijos gone, the Guard may turn to Royo's Vice President, Ricardo de la Espriella, a prominent banker...
This temporizing forecast accurately reflects the uncertain political climate in Kampala. Though Obote was widely believed to be the only Ugandan politician able to unite the country's warring factions, it is now generally agreed that he is today little more than a figurehead. Whatever real power exists in Uganda's government, diplomats believe, is wielded by Vice President and Defense Minister Paulo Muwanga. Last May Muwanga orchestrated the fall of Uganda's second post-Amin head of state-Godfrey Binaisa-and installed himself as chairman of the six-man military commission that ruled the country until...
...have no special reason to support Bok other than the fact that I think he does a good job in his principal role as a figurehead and an adequate job in his secondary role as administrator. But let me continue the same conversation...
...repeated charge that the I.R.P. power brokers would stop at nothing to consolidate their position. Whether by force or otherwise, the mullahs clearly would have preferred to eliminate Banisadr as a political leader after sweeping last spring's parliamentary elections and ensconcing Raja'i as their figurehead Prime Minister. But the intervening war with Iraq greatly strengthened the President's hand by giving him an active military role as Commander in Chief and winning him the crucial support of the army. Says Barry Rubin of the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies: "Banisadr has won popularity...