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...Yerevan the movement to join Armenia has spawned its own leaders. Foremost among them is the shadowy Karabakh Committee, which loosely coordinates the Theater Square demonstrations. The committee, officially disbanded in March, still has eleven active members, who meet regularly despite the threat of prison sentences should the government decide to act. "We lead totally open lives," says Levon Ter-Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader...
...fanfare at last week's gathering of the P.L.O.'s parliament on the outskirts of Algiers, Arafat's new state came into existence in name only, a largely symbolic response by P.L.O. leaders who wanted to show some political results for the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Only hours earlier, Arafat had overcome the protests of Palestinian hard-liners and persuaded the council to reverse its long-standing rejection of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, which - implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist. Needing a legal foundation for setting...
...democratic energy is the legacy of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's July announcement of elections, and a Supreme Court ruling on Oct. 2 allowing political parties to participate fully in the races. The Supreme Court decision followed the mysterious death of Zia in an airplane explosion in August, eleven years after he seized power. The elections will give Bhutto the long-awaited opportunity to return her party to the ruling position it held from 1971 until 1977, when Zia overthrew her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a coup. Zia subsequently permitted Bhutto's execution to take place...
...only member of his party to vote against the Reagan tax cuts in 1981: he correctly predicted that they would produce large deficits. Since the two candidates differed so little on issues, Gray tried a negative campaign aimed mainly at Jeffords' acceptance of money from groups he helped. Eleven days before accepting $5,000 from a Teamsters PAC in 1987, Jeffords asked Attorney General Edwin Meese not to put the racket-ridden union under federal trusteeship. (Meese did so anyway.) A former state legislator and attorney general, Jeffords kept intact his record of never having lost a statewide election...
Ronald Reagan has presided over neither the democratization of the region nor the disintegration of the Communists -- no winners, only losers. The new Administration must find a better policy. -- The military tightens its chokehold in Burma, even as it promises reforms and elections. -- For the first time in eleven years, all of Pakistan' s parties are taking part in a national political campaign...