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...crisis area is vast. It includes India, once again the world's most populous democracy, but a politically divided and troubled nation with a squabbling, ineffective government; impoverished Bangladesh; unstable Pakistan, where an inept military regime is currently considering the execution of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the autocratic but brilliant politician who rebuilt his country after its disastrous defeat by India in 1971. To the northeast is Afghanistan, where a pro-Soviet junta that seized power last year is trying to rule over one of the world's most ungovernable tribal societies. In the west...
...economic improvement, Neto is now moving to ensure that the government bureaucracy does not stand in the way either. In the past few days the Prime Minister's job as well as the two posts of deputy prime minister have been abolished as excessive, and two officials of the inept ministry of internal commerce were replaced...
Missing three fencers from last year's A-1 quartet due to graduation, the Crimson women had little chance to test their new mettle against the inept, unskilled Rhodies. As Captain Kathy Lowry discovered after a somewhat sluggish start in the opening bout of the match, easy victories required no more than straightforward quick lunges with no fakes...
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...November issue of the magazine cited Bok, along with Anita Bryant, Henry Winkler, the entire town of Hvden, Ky., and 46 others, as "inept," and misfits...