Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innocent Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [April 16] will always be in the minds and hearts of the poor people of Pakistan. His positive achievements far outnumber the misdeeds he may have committed. The only popular and nationally recognized political personality ever to emerge after independence is gone. A great leader has been taken away from his people by force...
...situation got so bad that in March Mayor Edward Koch sent additional police underground to patrol subway trains between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. But the Magnificent 13 took up its underground patrols well before the mayor acted. The group's founder and leader is Curtis ("The Rock") Sliwa, 23, a night manager of the McDonald's restaurant at the corner of Broadway and 236th Street in The Bronx. Neatly turned out and ruggedly handsome, Sliwa became known as The Rock for his high school skill at brawling and an ability to go for days without sleep...
Britain had never seen an election campaign quite like it. Looking and sounding like a confident winner, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher last week made a whirlwind trip from one end of the island to the other that had many of the earmarks of a royal tour. She traveled in her own executive bus, which was followed by two others filled with dozens of journalists, ten television crews and a swarm of still photographers. It was election razzmatazz, American style, and Thatcher reveled...
...attended rallies on behalf of Labor candidates for Parliament. Callaghan and his aides traveled without fanfare on an executive jet, leaving the press to catch up as best it could on whatever planes and trains were available. As a result, he was getting less national attention than the Tory leader...
...third-team All-American and the nation's leader in earned run average last season, Brownie got bombed late against Penn April 30 (an 11-9 win, eventually) and Brown April 29 (a 7-5 loss, as the Bruins pushed across five runs with two outs in the last inning...