Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began, just five months after the smiling embraces that climaxed the Camp David summit, one of the most inauspicious confrontations in years. Not only did the two leaders meet in a spirit of tension, but the meeting itself was agreed upon only after a series of misunderstandings and misfortunes. Yet on it probably hung the last slim hope of the peace process that Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had begun by his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in November of 1977. Since then, even since Camp David, drastic changes had jeopardized prospects of peace in the Middle East. The latest...
...minareted buildings, making ready for the Ayatullah's return. Now, hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "God is great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly an hour for the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to complete the last mile and a half of his journey. Finally...
Radical opposition to Khomeini's theocratic dictates is gathering force. In a potentially ominous turnabout, a leader of the Islamic nationalist mojahedeen guerrillas, who are still battling the Marxist Fedayan-e Khalq,* joined the leftists in their demands for a greater role in running the country. Mojahedeen Commander Massoud Rajavi demanded that all restrictions on the radicals' participation in the government be lifted. He voiced support for the "democratically elected" workers councils that are springing up in virtually every institution from businesses to the air force. Such groups have three times forced the resignation of officers appointed...
...This is a struggle for the soul of the country." So declared an impassioned leader of the upstart Scottish National Party, as Britain approached a long-awaited referendum on "devolution," the Labor government's plan to transfer authority in health, education, housing and other matters from the Parliament in Westminster to regional assemblies to be established in Edinburgh and Cardiff. What prompted Labor's initiative was not a question of soul but of cold politics. Though the Nationalists had been campaigning for greater independence for years, they never won much attention until 1974, when the Scottish party...
Josiah Chinamano, vice-president of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), said in an interview yesterday that Robert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union (ZANU), assured him three months ago that he is committed to the unified Patriotic Front...