Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unorthodox Encounter. At Obasanjo's urging, Young met with Angola's left-wing President Agostinho Neto, whose government the U.S. does not recognize. It was the first meeting between a high-level American official and the Angolan head of state since the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, headed by Neto, defeated the forces backed by the U.S. in the Angolan civil war. Given that background, Young seemed remarkably casual about the unorthodox encounter. The meeting itself was fairly cordial, but the two men disagreed on the subject that had preoccupied Young during most of his trip...
...departure does not necessarily spell her downfall. The Congress Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief, Lawrence Malkin, the call for a quick election may have been a blessing...
...within 72 hours of arrest. Police arrested more than 30 people, including Mariano Sanchez Covisa, a leader of the Guerrilleros (who was later released), 15 non-Spaniards and several members of extreme left groups. The government deported another 70 foreigners, many of them from among the hundreds of right-wing fanatics who had found a haven in Spain during the Franco...
...than 50,000 mourners assembled in a vigil outside the Palace of Justice, where the bodies of some of the slain lawyers were allowed to lie in state. Though the government at first had sought to ban any funeral ceremony, the crowds were kept in order by efficient left-wing marshals wearing red armbands. While helmeted riot police looked on from a distance, the demonstrators stood in silence, many with clenched fists in the air, uttering an occasional shout of "Assassins!" quickly hushed by the marshals. It was an impressive display of organization and control on the part...
...already getting heated, Miller is running for re-election against Union Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick and U.M.W. International Board Member Lee Roy Patterson. Patrick, 46, a voluble, fiery fourth-generation miner from Monongah, W. Va., ran with Miller on the reform ticket in 1972 and represents the progressive wing of the union. Though he came to office without bookkeeping experience or a high school education, he is credited with putting the U.M.W.'s ledgers in order after years of abuse under Boyle. Patterson, 43, is a graying, stocky union in-fighter from Madisonville, Ky., who campaigned for Boyle...