Word: controller
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Madani's party has put forward no concrete proposal to deal with Algeria's sagging economy. There is no guarantee that he can control the radicals, like those who took to the streets last week chanting, "Oh, Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!" And his party's aim to establish the Islamic legal code, known as the shari'a, conjures visions of public amputations. Middle- class women are particularly anxious: Madani has proposed that women be paid to stay home and not compete in the tight job market...
...parliamentarians elected, 34 were members or supporters of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. Although the moderate Brotherhood was the only organized opposition force to stand in the elections, Arab leaders read the outcome as a confirmation of their worst fears. While Hussein favors continued reforms, he retains absolute control of defense and foreign policy...
...next day thousands of miners, brought to the capital from towns as far as 250 miles away, took control of the city. Wielding clubs and steel pipes, they set up roadblocks and demanded identity documents, savagely beating anyone suspected of opposing the government. By the time calm returned, at least four people had been killed and hundreds wounded...
Mandela's style is leadership by example, and he has not found it easy to take over day-to-day control of the A.N.C. He has had to carry out his onerous public duties while being distracted by a family crisis. Last month the reputation of his controversial wife Winnie was further damaged when her former chief bodyguard was convicted in a Johannesburg court of murdering a teenage black activist. The judge found that the youth had been beaten at the Mandelas' Soweto home in Winnie's presence. Mandela said the government was smearing his wife in court without giving...
Fortunately, the light oil carried by the Mega Borg disperses and evaporates more readily than heavy crude. Of the 4 million gal. that escaped, much burned off in surface fires. By week's end the vessel was under control, although one tank was still leaking. The 30-mile-long slick seemed likely to inflict some -- but not major -- damage ashore. It had been a close call...