Word: leaders
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Gaddafi's curious blend of utopianism, anarchism and militant Islamic fundamentalism is reflected in his own rather vague political status. He is clearly the maximum leader. His picture is everywhere. Often he is pictured with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, his hero, who died in 1970. The "traitor" Sadat is frequently shown in the Libyan press with Moshe Dayan's face in the background-a photo taken during Sadat's speech to the Knesset in 1977. Yet Gaddafi has no official title or post in the Libyan state or government, and he has never allowed himself...
Armed guards were everywhere, and the trip to the headquarters of the P.L.O. leader was made in secrecy. Yasser Arafat saw TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis and Beirut Reporter Abu Said Abu Rish in one of his hideaway offices in Beirut. He seemed confident, even buoyantly happy, as he talked for two hours. Excerpts...
...general election has been scheduled for May 3. Labor's Callaghan, 67, and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher, 53, have squared off for an election campaign that is already regarded as perhaps the most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...
Anticipating victory over Amin, Ugandan exiles from around the world met last week in Tanzania to form a provisional government. Conspicuously absent was former President Milton Obote, who had been overthrown by Big Daddy in 1971. Never a particularly popular leader, Obote had alienated many of his countrymen with his authoritarian manner and socialist rhetoric, and particularly with his ruthless efforts to crush Uganda's ancient tribal kingdoms in the interests of national unity...
Instead of Obote, the exiles chose a compromise leader, Y.K. Lule, 66, former chancellor of Makerere University. Under the name of the Uganda National Liberation Front, the group declared that the new government will re-establish democratic principles, including the rule of law and respect for human rights. That would be quite a change for Big Daddy's tormented domain...