Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped them to find common ground, which they might not have, had they just been contesting elections. The Janata party may therefore be much less of hastily glued hodge-podge than it seems. The Congress party, rather, is in danger of falling apart since its members stand to gain personal power only by defecting, something which Indian politicians rarely have qualms about doing. If the Congress Party does hold together, there is a chance that the foundations of Indian democracy will be strengthened by the existence of two coherent national parties...
...autocratic ruler Mobutu Sese Seko soon to be a President in exile? That was one possibility being considered by Western diplomats in Kinshasa last week as the 2,000 to 5,000 Katangese exiles invading Zaire's Shaba region continued to gain ground easily. In a strange war without battles, the exiles seemed to be conquering sizable swatches of what was once called Katanga province without effective opposition from Mobutu's forces there...
Chances are the two men should get along well. Among other things, Sadat is as devout a Moslem as Carter is a Baptist. Moreover, both are small-town boys who talk about the inspiration they still gain from their home towns. Sadat's Plains is a Nile Delta village named Mit Abou Alkoum (the Place of the Heap), which Sadat has called "an unfailing source of morality, common sense and perspective...
Mismanagement Charge. The company's directors were thoroughly alarmed at the intrusion. Last October, before the Sinatra group was rebuffed in its attempts to gain representation on the board, Greenspun filed a suit charging mismanagement and misappropriation of funds against the present corporate management. His special target: Chairman and President Robert H. Johnson. Johnson is also the executor of Del Webb's estate, which owns about a third of the stock, and the principal director of the Del Webb Foundation. "What is good for the estate is not necessarily good for the public company," argues the pugnacious Greenspun...
...crusty dean of congressional crime fighters, badly wants a criminal-code reform bearing the McClellan name before his expected retirement next year, and the compromise package negotiated over six months by aides of the two Senators is a far cry from the old Sl. "It's a net gain for civil liberties," an enthusiastic Kennedy told a House judiciary subcommittee last week...