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...advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba, and is reported to have a slush fund of $1 billion a year for terrorist activities alone. He allegedly tried four times to have Sadat killed, and the Presidents of Niger, the Sudan and Tunisia have all accused Gaddafi of trying to oust them...
...Salvador's neighbors are also divided about the election. The Organization of American States last week voted 22 to 3 to back the election and send observers if requested. But the resolution was opposed by Nicaragua and Grenada, which support the leftist guerrillas who are trying to oust the Salvadoran junta, and by Mexico, which favors a negotiated political settlement. Four other countries abstained...
...soldiers of fortune, usually of right-wing persuasion, who fought for pay in Mozambique or Angola and staged coup attempts in the Camores or Dominica. Most of those involved in the Seychelles operation probably did not know who backed the job. They were simply paid $1,000 each to oust a leftist regime, and promised a further $10,000 if the coup succeeded. But they failed. "They were the fledglings, not the real Wild Geese. Maybe that's how they came to mess it up," says Douglas Lord, a Johannesburg store manager and veteran of the Congo mercenary campaign...
ONCE IN POWER, Sadat tried to consolidate his shaky position by making popular political moves. His decision to oust the soviets was widely praised, as was his order to cut back on the powers of the secret police. But Egypt suffered from an inferiority complex brought on by its resounding defeat in the June 1967 war with Israel. Antagonism was at a high and the prospect for breaking the Arab-Israeli deadlock seemed non-existant...
...More heads rolled in the Central Committee voting, when candidates on the liberal and conservative extremes were rejected, leaving the centrists in control. Among the prominent officials who went down to defeat were Politburo Hard-liners Mieczyslaw Moczar and Tadeusz Grabski; the latter had led an unsuccessful drive to oust Kania last month and was deemed a strong challenger for the party leadership. One of the highest vote tallies, 1,615, went to Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski-a solid expression of support for his pragmatic policies...