Word: leaders
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...foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta's economic program, Minister of the Interior Tomás Borge Martinez, a guerrilla leader who denies that he is a Marxist, would only say: "In the beginning it is going to be a mixed economy." What might follow...
Illness or no illness, the opposition Labor Party planned to slap the government with a no-confidence motion in the Knesset this week, even though Labor Leader Shimon Peres conceded that it had little chance of passage. Embattled Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich appeared to be barely weathering demands for his resignation. Factions of his own bickering Liberal Party, whose support is essential to Begin's Likud coalition, had earlier attacked him for withdrawing his proposed series of public spending cuts, which are considered necessary as a first step toward halting the inflation spiral...
...victim was tough-talking Zuheir Mohsen, 43, who was both Military Operations Chief of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the P.L.O.'s Syrian-backed Al Saiqa faction. The assassination of the top guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired...
...imposing, athletic black man wearing a red, white and blue track suit and white sneakers looked like a touring pro basketball star, but the crowds knew better. Instantly recognizing their visitor as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, black Africans reached out to touch the American civil leader as he made his way among the shacks and shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town. He was greeted there by a banner...
...totaling an identical number. Each claimed to have 279 supporters in the Lok Sabha (lower house), nine more than necessary to form a majority government. Even as Reddy scrutinized the conflicting claims, members of Parliament were changing allegiances behind the scene. In the end, the President chose Singh, the leader of 10 million Jats (farmers) from northern India, as his country's fifth Prime Minister...