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...army are one." Through much of the Nimeiri era, opposition political parties, professional groups and unions were forced underground. Last week they all bubbled to the surface again, banding together in a group that they christened the Alliance of Forces for National Salvation, distributing tracts and stating their determina- tion to reclaim their rights. To pacify them, the council ordered the arrest of high officials in the Nimeiri government, dissolved the feared state security police and ordered the release of all political prisoners...
...shoved together to become a single, heavier helium nucleus, a tiny bit of their individual masses is converted into a tremendous amount of energy. In weapons, that energy is uncontrolled and destructive. To channel it into a usable form, scientists must be able to control the fusion reac- tion and confine it to a chamber, which requires surmounting some formidable physical constraints. The hydrogen nuclei must be crushed together with enough force to overcome their mutually repellent positive electric charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of a fission bomb, or A-bomb...
...Reporters, however, quickly turned up 1980 newspaper clippings and TV footage showing that Bush had supported federal funding for abortions in case of rape, incest and danger to the life of the mother, and had opposed an antiabortion amendment. "I don't recall it as being my posi tion then," Bush said about this evidence. Didn't that damage his credibility? "No," he replied. "There's an awful lot of things I don't remember...
...appointment, members of the party politburo met in emergency session at the Communists' fortress-like glass-and-steel headquarters. Despite three hours of deliberation, they were unable to agree on how to react. The indecision continued even after Party Leader Georges Marchais had hastily returned from his vaca tion on the beaches of Rumania. A Communist delegation met with Fabius to ask for guarantees that the fight against unemployment would receive priority over the government's austerity policy. Later, the central committee announced that it was "not satisfied with the answers that Mr. Fabius gave...
...robust American economy has also made the U.S. a land of investment opportunity. Unlike other developed nations, America is currently basking in a sunny combination of strong growth and moderate infla- tion. After expanding at an annual rate of 9.7% in the first quarter and an estimated 5.7% in the second, the U.S. gross national product is expected to increase some 5.5% during all of 1984, or more than twice as much as the average for other industrial countries. U.S. inflation, meanwhile, has fallen to less than 5%. Last week the Government reported that wholesale prices did not increase...