Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having indulged in these flourishes, LÓpez Portillo turned milder at a concluding press conference. The Mexican leader, who is actually relatively conservative, admitted that "the cause of the problem is our own," and added that he was "deeply satisfied with the results of this meeting." It was hard to believe Jimmy Carter could...
...convictions followed a 21-day trial in which the Government's star witness was the cool, enigmatic, self-described leader of the assassination squad, Michael Vernon Townley, 36, an American who cooperated with the prosecution in return for a lenient sentence of three years and four months. Townley testified that Letelier's murder had been ordered by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, chief of the now defunct Chilean secret police, DINA. According to Townley, Contreras had demanded the killing because Letelier, a socialist, was considered a dangerous opponent of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime...
...gunmen descended on the Inter-Continental Hotel, where most of the foreign newsmen were staying, and put on a display of guerrilla derring-do. A colleague of Khomeini's chided them by saying, "You're only upsetting the reporters," but minor shootups persisted throughout the day. The leader of the attack on the hotel, a former student who said his name was "Amini," agreed that it was dangerous to have so many armed civilians in the streets. But soon, he added, "they will all run out of ammunition, and when Imam Khomeini gives the word, we will take...
...whole by suggesting that the Palestine Liberation Organization had a rightful role to play in the peace process. Said Dayan: "The P.L.O. is not a state, but we cannot deny its position or its value in the conflict and eventually, in order to reach a solution." P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat dismissed Dayan's words as a "Zionist tap dance...
...superpower but as a friend of the Arabs." Added another official: "Camp David is no longer our No. 1 priority." What alarmed the Egyptians was the specter of a highly armed, militant Iran making common cause with such radically anti-Israel Arab states as Iraq and Libya. P.L.O. Leader Arafat was reported to have conferred with Ayatullah Khomeini in Tehran last weekend, and the Iranians have declared their intention of turning the sacked Israeli mission in Tehran into a Palestinian embassy...