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Among other attributes he will bring to the U.N. are a fine speaking style, an attractive family (he has four children) and an indefinable quality that makes people trust him. Also diplomatic experience in the harshest sense. As he once put it: "I was taught to fight when people called me nigger. That's when I learned that negotiation is better than fighting...
Miki's strongest challenger is his harshest critic, former Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda, 71, who has lined up powerful backing from among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed...
...harshest charge frequently heard is that the black press is now so steeped in mediocrity that it deserves its troubles. Says John Henrik Clarke, black educator and an editor of the civil rights quarterly Freedom-ways: "It's doing more copying of the white press than creating. Since the civil rights movement, it has collapsed." A perturbed black journalist calls black papers "woefully understaffed and lacking in quality...
...country's new economic troubles pose a dilemma for Machel, who was already facing rising dissent at home over one of the harshest austerity programs ever imposed by an African government on its people. When Mozambique won its independence from Portugal last June, its future looked relatively bright compared with that of Lisbon's other African territories. Unlike Angola, which became engulfed in a civil war among three liberation movements, Mozambique had only one major force fighting for independence - Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique). Frelimo leaders made seemingly sincere requests to whites to stay...
...command the city's 1,500-man police force, then struggling ineffectively against a crime surge that had made Atlanta one of the homicide capitals of the U.S. But today the top cop is being cheered more than he is being jeered-even by some of his harshest early critics. Says Hal Gulliver, editorial page editor of the Atlanta Constitution, which vehemently opposed his appointment: "Eaves must be doing something right...