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Hufton would begin her tenure in the fall term of the 1987-88 academic year, Clinton said...
...presidential leadership will undoubtedly be regarded as one of his most important contributions to the presidency. And yet there seems now a certain inadequacy about the Reagan magic. Other than tax reform, Reagan has not exploited his popularity to push for new initiatives so far in his second term. As the nation begins to show signs of yearning for a more generous social vision, as the Reagan prosperity prompts a renewed concern for the have-nots both at home and abroad, Reagan sometimes seems behind the wave, exalting individualism rather than a more lasting sense of altruism. There are time...
Critics say that Nakasone, 68, an able and forceful politician, has launched a complex drive to gain an unprecedented third term that would enable him to carry out his program. The bylaws of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party state that its leader must step down after two terms as party president. Since the head of the party in power is also the country's Prime Minister, the stricture would force Nakasone to leave both posts when his second two-year term expires next October. In the hope of circumventing the requirement, Nakasone last month called for elections...
...area of proven vulnerability is finance. Last year, after several American and European banks demanded immediate payment on short-term loans to South Africa because of the deteriorating situation, the country virtually panicked. The level of the national currency, the rand, plummeted, and in September the government declared a moratorium on repaying its $14 billion in short-term bank loans. Says Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga: "If Pretoria will not listen to arguments based on rights, it will listen to arguments based on rands." But no one expects measures against South African trade to be nearly as effective...
Last week, when the Socialists handily won a second term in office, the scene was almost tranquil. Fewer than 200 supporters gathered outside the same election headquarters in the Palace Hotel, and only one, a woman clutching a fistful of red roses, shouted the old political war cry, "Felipe, Felipe! Felipe Presidente!" The postelection calm was briefly broken Wednesday when a bomb exploded in checked luggage at the Madrid terminal of El Al, the Israeli airline, injuring 13 people, two of them seriously...