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Councilor Leonard J. Russell, however, had a different request. "I'm asking Santa to make me mayor," Russell said. The nine councilors will elect one of their number to the position after the new council is sworn is in January...
...called Eastern Front--consisting of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan--included some 24 divisions, almost 6,000 medium tanks, 5,200 armored personnel carriers, over 4,000 artillery pieces, and over 1,000 combat aircraft. Thus, in view of the geographical realities of the area, and the sworn enmity and strength of the Arab nations, it is more than a little bit strange that the UN and the concerned nations did not forsee what seems, in retrospect, to be the almost inevitable occupation. Israel needs to monitor and defend the Jordan River area, it has an ultimate right...
...important to keep partisan friction from stymying the city council at the beginning." said A very Upchurch, who will be sworn in as Raleigh, N.C.'s chief executive in a few weeks...
...government consistently slights them. Sikh moderates would be appeased by an increase in state power; a small radical minority, however, is determined to fight for an entirely separate state called Khalistan. So far, more than 100,000 Sikhs, known as the Akali Dal (Action Party) "Sacrifice Squad,"' have sworn to lay down their lives in the present struggle...
...auspicious beginning. No sooner had Yitzhak Shamir been sworn in as Israel's seventh Prime Minister than his new government was engulfed in an economic crisis. Four days later, Finance Minister Yoram Aridor, a holdover from outgoing Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Cabinet, became the government's first casualty. With the opposition Labor Party calling for a vote of no confidence, there were serious doubts as to how long Shamir's fragile majority would hold together...