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...cohesion that the dead leader had established. As for the post of Prime Minister, there seemed to be no one ready to fill Sá Carneiro's shoes. His Deputy Prime Minister and acting successor, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, is a frosty Christian Democrat unfamiliar with compromise. Socialist Mario Soares, an indispensable helmsman of the nation as Prime Minister after the 1974 revolution, is currently out of favor with both the electorate and his party...
...ended the 22-week trial-the longest in North Carolina's history-of four Ku Klux Klansmen and two members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party. The charges: killing five members, four white and one black, of the Communist Workers Party at a C.W.P.-sponsored "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in November 1979. The outcome drew predictably inflammatory responses from both extremist camps. Calling the verdict "a great victory for white America," North Carolina Nazi Leader Harold Covington maintained that it proved "we can beat the system on their own ground." Signe Waller, a C.W.P. member...
Western banks have been happy to lend to Eastern European countries, which they believe are good risks. Communist governments are presumed to be stable. Moreover, the debtors in socialist nations are not firms but governments, and their repayment record over the past 35 years is unblemished. That helps explain why Yugoslavia has been able to borrow more than $7.5 billion from Western banks and why Rumania owes $4.2 billion to private foreign lenders...
...father, Isaac Foot, was a Liberal Member of Ramsay MacDonald's government, and his three brothers have had distinguished public service careers. His wife of 31 years, Jill Craigie, is a well-known writer and documentary film producer. Though he has always relished the role of iconoclast and socialist firebrand, when he became deputy to the cautious Callaghan in the last Labor government, Foot damped down his fires. It is now widely believed that he may once again backtrack on some of his most radical positions, including unilateral nuclear disarmament. Foot himself, however, was not about to concede...
...area's island states this year have retained or produced governments that range from moderate to conservative. The most dramatic of the shifts took place three weeks ago in Jamaica, where voters ousted the eight-year-old government of Prime Minister Michael Manley, 56, a charismatic, pro-Cuban Socialist whose inefficient policies had helped bring his once prosperous island to the edge of bankruptcy...