Word: supporter
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...powerful curb on Abu Nidal's activities is the apparent turn to moderation of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is seeking to bring his country out of isolation. Last October Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak bluntly told the Libyan that improved relations with Cairo depend on Gaddafi's abandoning his support of terrorism. So hostile has Gaddafi become to terrorist groups that some reports place Abu Nidal not in a hospital but under house arrest in Tripoli...
...most unhappy souls in the world come through these portals,' " says Larry Richard, president of Lawgistics, a Philadelphia career-counseling firm for attorneys. "I see lawyers who range from merely curious about their alternatives to those who are seriously depressed and even suicidal." Branches of Lawyers in Transition, a support group that offers seminars and workshops for attorneys who are looking for job alternatives, have proliferated, primarily on the West Coast. Such services, which often include vocational information and testing, range widely in price, from...
...disrepute. In parliamentary elections late last month, the Congress (I) Party, as it is now called, was routed from power for only the second time in independent India's history. Several corruption scandals, as well as Gandhi's accelerating isolation from his people, helped squander the reserves of public support that in 1984 had given his party an unprecedented 415 of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Congress has been reduced to a sorry 192 seats, having lost power to a disparate opposition led by Gandhi's archrival, Vishwanath Pratap Singh...
...bombing Channel 9 just as Aquino was announcing that the situation had been "contained." They pinned down loyalist forces by hitting Crame and the presidential palace. One palace staff member was hurt, but Aquino was unscathed. On a recommendation by Ramos, she relayed a request for U.S. air support to Washington and to U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Platt...
Coup plotters have taken advantage of the resulting frustration among the younger officers to organize against Aquino. According to Candido Filio, a military analyst with the University of the Philippines, Gringo Honasan did not need support from the top brass to launch last week's coup attempt. "He has been working the line of company commanders," says Filio. As it turned out, at least two generals joined the rebellion...