Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia, Algeria and Morocco, the Christian Lebanese and the P.L.O. The Saudis hope eventually to be the effective mediator in healing the deep rift Sadat's trip has caused in the Arab world. Said Saudi Information Minister Muhammed Abdo Yamani last week: "We are trying to cool everyone down; Sadat's trip was a gesture made to ease Israel's enmity towards us, and it should not create enmity among...
...bush. In three 18-hour days, O'Bradovich fashioned a plaster head modeled from skull fragments, then used the head to mold a latex mask of a Homo habilis face. A Kenyan volunteer wore the mask for Fischer's cover photograph, taken in the desolate Rift Valley outside Nairobi...
...leader of France's largest communist union said yesterday he expects the rift between the French Communist and Socialist parties to disappear before France's general election in March...
Last month's rift between Communists and Socialists occurred over the question of what to do about the hundreds of subsidiaries owned by the nine industrial groups that they hope to nationalize. The Socialists wanted to take over only those that are wholly owned, while the Communists had their eye on all those in which the parent company's stake was greater than 50%. Business reacted to news of the impasse with jubilation: the next day stock prices on the stagnant Paris Bourse climbed 4%. Today the index stands almost 24% above its level last...
...deadlock underscored the fragility of the leftist coalition, which, it has been widely predicted, may win the elections for the National Assembly next March. (One poll taken before last week's meeting gave the left a 53% majority.) But any further aggravation of the rift could wreck those victory chances. The dispute focuses attention on the all but ignored third partner in the coalition, Fabre's Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command...