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...which would have granted additional political clout to Lebanon's Muslim majority while curbing the influence of the Christians. Since 1943, when Lebanon won independence from France, an unwritten agreement has required that the President be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament a Shi'ite Muslim. The December accord gave the Muslims greater representation in the executive and the legislative branches. President Amin Gemayel at first praised the plan, but he quickly changed his mind when fellow Christian leaders voiced concern that the pact would end traditional Christian dominance of Lebanese political...
...Brian Mulroney promised that any agreement reached with the U.S. would be made within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and thus would not have an adverse effect on Canada's other trading partners. Later, Nakasone, speaking in both French and English before the Canadian Parliament, decried what he saw as a rising tide of protectionism. Likening international free trade to "a fragile porcelain doll," the Prime Minister went so far as to concede that Japan should be more open to imports. Officials of both countries later revealed that Tokyo had agreed to work toward...
...conservative Union of the Opposition a slim victory. Early returns showed the rightist alliance made up of the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) and the center-right Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.) winning more than 40% of the vote. That would give them about 290 seats in parliament, just more than the 289 needed for a majority. The Socialists got about 30%, or approximately 210 seats. They will thus remain the biggest single group in parliament...
...trend, but he can find someone in the opposition closer to his own thinking. He might, for example, consider former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 71, who served as Premier from 1969 to 1972. Another possibility is Simone Veil, 58, a former Health Minister and onetime president of the European Parliament...
...somber ceremony marked a kind of coming-of-age for a country long untouched by political violence. The man who was tapped to launch the new era in Sweden is Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, the mild-mannered politician elected by Parliament three days earlier to succeed Palme. After the new Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch...