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Prune Minister Sultan Ali Keshtmand, 47, is the No. 2 man in the regime, having recently taken over the prime ministership from Karmal. He is a longtime Communist and a mem ber of the pro-Soviet faction that gained dominance after the invasion...
...than all of us put together," says a colleague. It has often been said that Carrington could have occupied 10 Downing Street had he chosen to. In 1964 friends urged him to renounce his title in order to become eligible for election to the House of Commons and prime ministership. "Why should I want to be Prime Minister?" he replied. "I can imagine no more awful...
...Mikado, with its lighthearted attacks on both monarchy and things Japanese. Others in a cast of tens were Emily Powell, daughter of the President's press secretary, Senate siblings, ambassadorial ingenues, and Alice Jay, whose grandfather, James Callaghan, was in the process of losing his prime ministership at show time. Their ensemble was joined by another from the Soviet embassy, including Katya Dobrynin, the ambassador's granddaughter, who enchanted the East-West audience with her folk dance. Forgetting their handles, the kids...
Then there are the in-laws and lesser relatives. Last month the prime ministership was held by Manea Manescu, husband of Ceauşescu's sister Maria. When he retired because of ill health, the job went to another brother-in-law, Ilie Verdeţ husband of Ceauşescu's sister Reghina. Three other family members are Deputy Prime Ministers, including Elena's brother Gheorghe Petrescu; he is in charge of Rumania's arms-making industry...
From Gandhi's point of view, that probably was just as well: her chances of recapturing the prime ministership she lost in 1977 might be enhanced by her being in jail. During the debate over how to punish her for ordering the arrest in 1975 of four officials assigned to investigate the tangled business affairs of her son Sanjay, 32, she sought to provoke Desai's Janata Party into rashly locking her up. By so doing, the Times of India editorialized last week, she would gain "concrete evidence that when it comes to dealing with political opponents, Janata...