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...election of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand initially was seen as a threat to the trade. He fired G??rard Hibon, chief of the Direction des Affaires Internationales, which handles overseas arms deals. Sales to South Africa, Chile and Argentina were discouraged because of those nations' domestic policies, and an unofficial ban was placed on future sales to Libya after its invasion of Chad, a former French colony. "Right now we're in a period of reflection," says a top govern ment minister. But Mitterrand by no means wants France out of the business: on a visit to Saudi Arabia last...
...more independent-minded nationalist than Moscow wanted, thus became the third leader of Afghanistan to be overthrown and killed within the past 20 months. In his place the Soviets installed Babrak Karmal, 50, a former Deputy Prime Minister who had long been considered a Russian protég?...
...Jane M. Byrne, 45, shocked Chicago when she defeated Mayor Michael Bilandic and the Democratic machine in a primary and then went on last April to become mayor of the city where she had been born and raised. A protég??e of late Mayor Richard Daley, Byrne had spent ten years as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales and served one year as co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic Central Committee. She is a scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially...
Then came more bad news: Lieut. General Edward Rowny, 62, a Jackson protég?? and the Joint Chiefs of Staffs representative on the U.S. SALT negotiating team in Geneva, announced that he was resigning from the Army. Rowny has made no secret of his disapproval of SALT II, and he is expected to provide the treaty's opponents with ammunition, since he can speak authoritatively about the swaps that went on at the bargaining table
...Vatican's Wladyslaw Rubin, 61, secretary-general of the International Synod of Bishops, and Franciszek Macharski, 52, John Paul's scholarly protég?? and successor as Archbishop of Cracow...