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...Minister Edgar Tekere that begins in Salisbury this week. The manner in which the trial of the radical and powerful Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development is conducted, and its eventual outcome, will be widely regarded as a crucial test of Mugabe's control over his promising, but fractious, young country. Said Sir Roy Welensky, former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: "The world will be watching the outcome of this trial...
...demand solutions, so how come the candidates don't?" So muses Claudia Wells, 29, a secretary in Charleston, S.C., and her puzzlement is hardly unique. As Campaign '80 moves into its final three weeks, the discussion of the U.S.'s pressing economic problems has become a fractious and cantankerous presidential non-debate that is informing no one and confusing voters everywhere...
...gallon. Western observers, who had feared that a drop in Saudi production would lead to a new escalation of oil prices, sighed with some relief after the meeting. But the session again showed how much the oil-importing nations and their economies hang on the decisions of the fractious oil cartel...
Unfortunately, one predictable aspect of the Liberal Democratic Party is fractious infighting. Although Ohira's death unified the party's dissident factions for the elections-appealing for unity, some candidates played Ohira's last campaign speech over loudspeakers in the streets -the quarrels will surface again as the party picks its new leader. A chairman must be chosen before the new Diet meets on July 17 for a special session...
...fact, the timing of his departure could hardly have been calculated to do more damage to Begin's grip on power. Beset by an annual inflation rate of 122%, blamed by the Egyptians for the deadlock in the Palestinian autonomy negotiations, and burdened by incessant squabbling within his fractious Cabinet coalition, Begin's government had grown precariously weak...