Word: sons
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...spellbinding orator who conveyed the image of a populist reformer, Bhutto was the son of a wealthy landowner from Sind province. After earning degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and from Oxford, where he cultivated a taste for fine tailoring and vintage wines, he began his career as a delegate to the U.N. As Foreign Minister in the military government of General Muhammed Ayub Khan, he helped fashion Pakistan's policy of friendship with China. After his country's humiliating defeat in the war that led to independence for Bangladesh, Bhutto, who had quit the Cabinet...
...risk of being called a traitor," as Joe Clark tartly put it on a swing to Quebec City, the youthful Tory leader concentrated on the Trudeau economic record and pledged a passel of policies to Get Canada Working Again. The son of a newspaper publisher in High River, Alta., Clark has proved himself an adept parliamentary leader in his three years as Conservative chief. Many Canadians, however, worry about his relative inexperience, particularly in foreign affairs. After a somewhat nervous start on the hustings, Clark found his stride, advancing himself as a consensus seeker as opposed to "Mr. Trudeau...
...went adventuring again, but soon found it pointless. He bought 600 acres of pasture land and moors in Cornwall, England, but saw little reward in the life of a country squire. Convinced he should help the tribal people he had seen, he joined in 1969 with Francis Huxley (son of the late Sir Julian Huxley), Viscount Boyd of Merton and Lord Butler of Saffron Walden to form Survival International...
...battle much longer. Elayne's tour of duty is up in 1980, and she will re-enlist only if the Army assigns her to a U.S. city, where Richard can pursue his dream of becoming a disc jockey. Meanwhile, he continues to care for their five-month-old son during the day and take business courses at night. Undaunted, the couple is considering a second child...
...four times, to no avail. Finally, last week, Evans' mother went to the high court. Justice William Rehnquist, a supporter of the constitutionality of the death penalty, somewhat grudgingly put off the execution to give the full court a chance to hear Mrs. Evans' arguments. When her son got the news, he wept and said, "I will have to go through all this again." At the earliest, Evans could go to the chair...