Word: two
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...occupied territories and by its air and artillery attacks-using U.S. equipment-on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. At week's end, Palestinian sources in Beirut claimed that Israel had launched an armored strike into southern Lebanon in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Israelis and wounded 42 others. The Israeli high command denied that it had mounted any such attack. Despite the forced resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, the Israelis fear that Washington is secretly planning to establish informal relations with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (see following story...
...vote was a significant breakthrough for Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and his fellow British negotiators. Muzorewa had come to London vowing not to surrender the guarantees of white political control that he and two other black leaders had accepted as an essential part of last year's "internal settlement" with Smith. The Bishop then agreed to a British proposal calling for the reduction of white seats in the 100-member Parliament from 28 to 20 and the elimination of the blocking mechanism, under which whites can veto constitutional changes for the next ten years. Smith, the leader...
...humid, upriver capital of Bangui two years ago, former French colonial army Captain Jean-Bédel Bokassa donned an ermine robe and mounted a giant eagle-shaped throne. As 3,500 formally attired guests looked on, he crowned himself Bokassa I, unchallenged Emperor of a landlocked, poverty-stricken country that he renamed the Central African Empire (pop. 2 million). At a cost of $20 million, it was the most extravagant coronation since that of Napoleon, Bokassa's idol. Then the new Emperor intensified an already psychotic reign of terror, which included the mass murder last April...
...winners, the problem of forming a government with a single-vote majority was compounded by the fact that the three non-socialist parties are deeply divided on the country's two main political issues: nuclear energy and taxes. The Conservatives support further construction of nuclear reactors, which the Center Party and half of the Liberal Party oppose. All three parties want to reduce Sweden's exorbitant income taxes, but cannot agree on how else to pay for Western Europe's most expensive welfare state. The most likely prospect seemed to be either another feeble minority government...
...flight of the two families was only the most recent of several heroic attempts by East Germans to cross the hated Wall...