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...need to be cute about it. If I want to be Vice President, I'll be out on the hustings. You'll know." His current frenzy of banquets and rallies, then, is not to be considered hustings. "You get a certain serenity out of this," he says of his fractious Senate role. "You can't change the world all by yourself, but there is a serenity in trying." Aide Tom Ellis may have a straighter bead on any vice-presidential bid: "If Jesse thought it was in the best interests of his country, I think we could...
That prospect is contrary to America's interests-and, indeed, to Israel's own-in numerous ways. Israel argues that it is strong, stable and pro-Western, while most of the Arab states are weak, fractious and radical. But one reason the Arabs are that way, and becoming more so, is precisely because of their impasse with Israel. The tragedy and chaos that have engulfed the once peaceful, prosperous nation of Lebanon are a direct spillover of the Palestinian problem. Anwar Sadat's position both within Egypt and among his Arab brethren elsewhere will remain precarious unless...
...cease-fire in southern Lebanon. Sadat has been isolated from most of the Arab world, note the Saudis, while they are on influential terms with almost every Arab state. The Saudis believe they are in the best position to talk the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Syrians and the fractious Lebanese into working out a plan for peace...
...seeking a presidential candidate who would draw together all branches of the fractious party, Mauroy and his fellow socialists hit upon Mitterrand, who appeared to Mauroy to be a "man of destiny." But that year Mitterrand was soundly defeated by Charles de Gaulle for the presidency, and a close working relationship between the intellectual and the pragmatist did not form until the Socialists' 1971 reunification congress...
...nation's constitution calls for elections within six months, but with Zia's majority Bangladesh Nationalist Party now bereft of a strong leader and the 29 opposition parties fragmented and fractious, the fate of civilian rule seemed to depend on who flexes the biggest muscles. For the moment at least, the military's guns were supporting the government...