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...issue is rare, the cease-fire was greeted with rejoicing. President Elias Sarkis said he hoped soon to have the new Lebanese army, which has been trained for peace keeping, in the south to maintain peace. The cease-fire was also approved by Camille Chamoun, leader of the rightist Lebanese Front and the grand old man of the Christian side. For his part, P.L.O...
Even more heretical are clandestine political pamphlets that attack Mao's successor. One anonymous booklet called "A Road to Proletarian Opposition-or to Rightist Surrender?" accuses Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his "clique" of arresting Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Gang of Four" in order to "grab power with great haste." The booklet also charges the new regime-insult of insults-with slandering the memory of the late Great Helmsman...
...worked fairly well for a while. A skillful tactician, Scares secured support from Alvaro Cunhal's Communists on such important measures as regulating strikes, then turned around and gained the backing of Francisco Sa Carneiro's centrist Social Democrats (P.S.D.) and Diogo Freitas do Amaral's rightist Social Democratic Center (C.D.S.) on a Communist-opposed bill that permits the firing of workers for cause...
Smith is under growing domestic pressure to resolve Rhodesia's uncertain situation. Last week Desmond Frost quit as chairman of the P.M.'s Rhodesian Front Party and joined twelve other Rhodesian Front rebels in the ultra-rightist Rhodesian Action Party. This new group rejects even the limited concessions the regime has been making to blacks. As disturbing for the Smith regime is the quickened tempo of the "chicken run"-the flight of whites. Between 1,500 and 1,700 now leave Rhodesia each month; the net loss to the country (after accounting for immigration) could reach...
Rosalynn's most ticklish problem will come next week when she arrives in Brazil for a three-day visit, the longest round of official meetings on her schedule. There she will have to defend her husband's refusal to sell an extra $50 million in arms to the rightist regime, his statements on human rights violations, and his opposition to Brazil's purchase of a nuclear power plant from West Germany. Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel has agreed to receive her with all due correctness ?but may well have some pointed questions...