Word: leader
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Chase the Squirrels. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen tends to be more gregarious, but his home life is just as simple. He lives in rural Broad Run, Va., an hour out of Washington. "When he gets home from the Senate," says his son-in-law, Senator Howard Baker, "he changes into the most decrepit clothes you ever saw and gets out into his garden. He loves getting dirt under his fingernails." Baker adds that Dirksen "likes to sit out on the terrace with a bourbon in one hand and a BB gun in the other to shoo the squirrels away from...
Terrifying Reminder. Few courses are, in fact, open to the Arabs short of all-out war-and most military analysts believe that the Israelis would win decisively again. But guerrilla action is one potent tactic available to the Arabs. At week's end, George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, vowed that his guerrillas would attack Jewish property everywhere-U.S. holdings as well, because of Washington's support of Israel. A few hours later, the front claimed that its members were responsible for hijacking a TWA jetliner, bound from Rome...
...droop-mustached Grass is carrying on his highly personalized crusade on behalf of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He is not a member of the party, but nonetheless feels closely linked to it because of leftist leanings and his personal friendship with SPD Leader Willy Brandt. On the stump, Grass has also been spreading a nonpartisan gospel of his own. Germans, he maintains, must shake off their ingrained submission to authority and tradition and participate more actively in government affairs. "People leave too much to the parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship...
Last May, a military coup toppled the Sudan's civilian government, and policy toward the south began to change. There is little doubt that the southern problem is the chief concern of Major General Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, leader of the new government. Within two weeks after taking power, he set down a four-point plan calling for southern regional autonomy, and he has ordered the army to help build up the south's economy. Addressing his troops in the south two weeks ago, he said: "Now you must carry a rifle in one hand and a tool...
...your defense chief,' " said a foreign observer. "The guy who owns a typewriter is the guy who can start a new Southern Sudanese provisional government." There is no doubting the passion of the rebels. "There will be no solution until the Arabs leave the south," said one leader. "We have nothing more to lose, so we will fight on to the end." Said another: "I know the West believes peace will come when there is a good leader in Northern Sudan. But this is not true." Nobody knows, because Khartoum has not had a truly effective leader since independence...