Word: primes
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...Zaire is a friend. It is like a faithful woman," said Vunduawe te Pamako, Zaire's former deputy prime minister in 1984. Since 1984. Vunduawe's fate has been unclear--he is either in exile or prison. So much for loyalty to the head of state...
Wilson read a brief statement saying "statements made by the subcommittee members...convinced me the subcommittee had already prejudged me" and identified him as "a prime candidate for a criminal investigation...
...very tough in 1981," recalls Brundtland of her first brief eight- month stint as Prime Minister, when it seemed sometimes that the entire country was waiting for her to fail. "In the worst times I always thought, If you get through this, it will be much better for the next woman." As it turned out, she was the next woman, and by 1986, when she returned to power, her gender was no longer much of an issue. The collapse of oil prices had left Norway high and dry and deep in debt: Brundtland dazzled both friends and foes with...
Greens love her, feminists hail her, and the rest of the world tosses bouquets, but Prime Minister Gro Brundtland finds that being a visionary is harder than it looks...
...plans, only of peace. Last week both the Israeli government and Palestinian groups were engaged in heated internal discussions over the latest proposal for holding elections in the occupied territories. Forwarded by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the plan loosely parallels an election scheme put forth last April by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. But Mubarak's version includes some provisions that the Israeli leader has already rejected, including the participation of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the exchange of land for peace...