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...general's remarks came as a surprise to a high-level Guatemalan delegation that was visiting the U.S. Jorge Serrano, president of Ríos Montt's advisory Council of State, had assured a U.S. audience that an election date would be announced no later than March 1984 and that voting would probably take place the following June. Ríos Montt's reversal was "incomprehensible," said a member of the visiting delegation. "I don't know what the President had in mind...
...authors point out that polls were finding discontent during a time of both disappointments and gains. The same period that saw riots, Watergate and news of high-level corruption in business was marked by advances in civil rights and environmental legislation and the rise of women in the ranks of management. As a result, business leaders may be trusted less than they were during the Eisenhower era because the public demands more from them in terms of social responsibility. What businessmen often perceive as public antagonism may be only the unwavering scrutiny of better-informed citizens and consumers...
...wholesome and appealing bunch. Any one of them would have added a touch of class to the dreary Chicago election, and any one of them would make a better mayor than incumbent White, who has had several sides indicted on corruption charges and has himself been linked to such high-level scandals as selling a Beacon Hill town house for a dollar. But wholesomeness doesn't equal victory, especially in a town that is rather blase by now about corruption...
...airplane last week. As diplomats on several continents tried in vain to understand the latest political maneuvers in the Middle East, the shrewd survivor who runs the Palestine Liberation Organization jetted from South Yemen to North Yemen to Sweden and then to Tunisia, supposedly to attend a high-level P.L.O. policy meeting. But soon after arriving in Tunis, he left for a quick trip to Bulgaria, finally returning to Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat studiously managed to avoid going back to Jordan, where he had been engaged in intense...
...point here is simple. The Democratic Party has a strong chance to unseat an incumbent next year. It has a rare opportunity to run against an Administration with no notable foreign policy successes, with an economy that can only be called in shambles, and with a line-up of high-level officials that may be the worst since Herbert Hoover...