Word: elected
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...scientist tries to isolate the force inside each cell that triggers evolution; the postal clerk peruses dead letters by the carload in search of a secret code among the supernatural elect. They clash as men and then, having transcended mere morality through their discoveries, as ever more abstruse ! forms of energy. Like most fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive...
...meet in Washington with the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers to select a Palestinian delegation. That group, in turn, will travel to Cairo, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be host for preliminary talks in which the Palestinians and an Israeli delegation will set down the ground rules for elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. They will use as their framework a proposal put forward ten months ago by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Balloting will then be held in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate a period of limited self-rule. Within five...
...further military actions from any quarter," he said. But if power in Nicaragua is to change hands peacefully, the military standoff must be resolved before inauguration day. A violent confrontation would present Bush with an appalling decision on how far to go & to support the candidate the U.S. helped elect. Washington might serve its own interests better by persuading the contras to demobilize immediately, as both Chamorro and the Sandinistas have asked, but only after the Sandinistas offer firm guarantees that they will not pounce once the opposition is disarmed...
...President-elect was called to the telephone in her elegant home Monday night just as the guard at the front door admitted a visitor. On the line was Ronald Reagan. In the foyer was Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Both wanted to congratulate Violeta Chamorro on her stunning upset, though clearly Reagan was the happier of the two. With the charm and diplomacy bred by her patrician upbringing, Chamorro told Reagan that she would have to call him back. Then she turned and embraced the Sandinista chief...
...suture Nicaragua's self-inflicted wounds. Abolishing the unpopular military draft will be the first step. She must also rein in Godoy, whose statements during the campaign suggested that settling old scores might be the new government's top priority. At her first press conference, the President-elect made a point of fielding tough questions herself and praising Ortega for his concession of defeat...