Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fahd would almost surely succeed Khalid as King. The new Crown Prince would probably be Prince Abdullah, 57, currently Saudi Arabia's Second Deputy Prime Minister, although there are rumors that Fahd's ambitious brother Sultan has been lobbying within family circles for the post. Meanwhile, some promising third-generation royals are beginning to make their mark, most notably the eight sons of the late King Faisal. Among them are Abdullah, a businessman and poet; Saud, the urbane, Princeton-educated Foreign Minister; Khalid, governor of the remote Asir region; and Bandar, a member of the military staff...
Democrats on the board believe that the prime cause of inflation is the psychology that grips business and labor. Thus they argue that the President's efforts to induce "voluntary" restraint are worthwhile. Says Robert Nathan, a Washington economic consultant: "The most important thing in holding down inflation is to get business and labor's cooperation on prices and wages." Everybody agrees that winning labor support is remote, especially after George Meany last week thumbed his nose at Carter's importuning for restraint. Arthur Okun, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, notes that the rate...
...transition from the Rhodesia of the past to the Zimbabwe of the future has now been under way for almost two months, but the durability of Salisbury's "internal settlement" remains in doubt. The biggest challenge facing the ruling Executive Council, composed of Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is how to bring the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front into the electoral process, and thereby end the continuing civil war. But in the meantime, the council has been having problems within its own ranks...
...title at least, it appeared that the top man in the new regime would be the Prime Minister, Noor Mohammed Taraki, 61. He is a soft-spoken novelist and journalist who was once (1952-53) an attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington. More recently, as leader of the 15,000-member Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail...
...actually led the putsch got important portfolios in Taraki's 21-member Cabinet: Air Force Colonel Abdul Kadir became Defense Minister; Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Rafi, whose tanks spearheaded the palace assault, was named Public Works Minister; and Major Mohammed Aslam was designated Communications Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister. The remaining appointees were civilians, among them Hafisullah Amin, a onetime Columbia University student, who was named Foreign Minister, and Amahita Pratebsad, who as Director of Social Welfare becomes Afghanistan's first woman minister. To broaden the new faction's base outside Kabul, a National Revolutionary Council...