Word: leader
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...once overwhelming popularity. A + February poll by Apoyo, Peru's leading independent polling firm, charted his approval rating at a dismal 13%. Last December Garcia's support within his own APRA (Popular American Revolutionary Alliance) Party eroded to the point where he was forced to resign as its leader. Nevertheless, the President, whose five-year term expires in 1990, has stubbornly ignored calls for him to step down...
...edge of despotism. Last week Botha pushed it over the line. Declaring himself fully recovered from the stroke he suffered in January, he reclaimed his position as head of state, in defiance of resolutions by the National Party's parliamentary and provincial organizations. Since he resigned as leader of the party last month and is not a member of Parliament or the . Cabinet, the chief executive is now accountable...
Botha, 73, had been on sick leave for two weeks when he astonished the country on Feb. 2 by giving up his leadership of the National Party. After the Transvaal province leader, Frederik W. de Klerk, 53, was elected to succeed him on the same day, puzzled party chiefs finally concluded that Botha was signaling his intention to retire. So they were shocked once again by Botha's televised announcement that he would be returning to work on March 15. In a rapid series of meetings, the Nationalists resolved that the positions of party leader and State President should...
...award for most frightening thought of the week goes to Associate professor of Economics Lawrence B. Lindsey, former head section leader of Social Analysis 10 and associate director of the Office for Policy Development in the Bush Administration. Lindsey told a Crimson reporter, "I was impressed at how much of what we teach at Ec 10 has direct policy application...
...Republican party leadership is changing. Reasonable politicians like House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.) and Madigan are out, and ruthless political hotshots such as Gingrich, Republican National Committee Chair Lee Atwater and Republican National Congressional Committee head Ed Rollins are in. These people are largely responsible for the sludge-throwing contest American politics has turned into today...