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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...
Wall Street had more topsy-turvy times last week. On Monday the major banks raised the benchmark prune interest rate they charge many business clients a half point to 19.5%. Immediately the Dow Jones industrial stock average fell 13 points to 963, continuing its drop of 61 points in less than a month. But later in the week the Dow rallied 23 points to close at 986. Bond prices, which had plunged some 7.5% since the end of March, also slumped on Monday but came back to finish up about 2% for the week...
...this argument. But they faced a more formidable restraint than principle: the High Court ruling against Regan applied to publications as well. Thus on Saturday morning, though the story commanded headlines, not one paper printed the magazine's excerpts. The Guardian came close, paraphrasing portions touching on Prune Minister Eraser's sense of humor and Diana's reported surprise at learning her Prince had a bald patch on his head. For the time being, at least, monarchy-mad British readers would have to content themselves with sanitized hints...
...Social Democrats' hopes for real power rest with their plan for an alliance with the Liberals, with whom they share the middle road between Conservative Prune Minister Margaret Thatcher's doctrinaire capitalism and the increasingly far-left leanings of the Labor Party. Britons like the alternative of a Liberal-Social Democrat coalition; in the latest Gallup poll that combination won an approval rating of 44%, which was 17 points ahead of either of the major parties...
...also be able to count on more economic assistance from the Saudis; as long as he is a pariah in the Arab world, they are constrained from helping him very much. A Jordanian "solution" for the West Bank will become more feasible if Shimon Peres succeeds Menachem Begin as Prune Minister in Israeli elections this summer. Peres and his Labor Party have expressed a willingness, under certain circumstances, to return much of the West Bank to Jordanian sovereignty...