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...PL.O.'s divisions were evident from the start of the five-day Amman conference, when roll call was taken and the names of missing delegates echoed through the Hussein Sports City auditorium. Since the Israelis would not allow the 180 delegates who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to attend, only 249 members of the 374-seat council were needed for a quorum. To cobble the necessary numbers, Arafat aides persuaded the deputy speaker to appoint several dozen loyalists temporarily to vacant seats. On the second day the delegates voted to dismiss Khaled Fahoum, the council speaker...
TIME correspondents accompanied each of the four major candidates as they gave their last speeches and shook their last few hundred hands. Two White House correspondents covered Ronald Reagan's final forays: Douglas Brew traveled with the President on a five-day, 16-city swing, and Laurence Barrett was there for the huge G.O.P. wrap-up rally in San Diego...
...Ronald Reagan, the genial former actor who came to personify populist conservative appeal, it was the final week of his final campaign. As he coasted through a five-day, 15-city concluding tour, he touted the themes and exuded the comforting confidence that have served him so well on the political stage. For Walter Mondale, the protege of Hubert Humphrey who has nourished the flame of Democratic liberalism, it was also likely to be, for those who believe the polls, his last week stumping for the nation's highest office. He, too, culminated his campaign by calling forth...
...participants in the five-day conference denounced the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and urged the banning of nuclear weapons in Britain, but their main preoccupation was the bitter coal strike. The miners want to force the National Coal Board to rescind plans that would close 20 uneconomic pits and pension off 20,000 miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill...
...human rights organization has sent four fact-finding trips to Central America in the past two years. The trips include five-day stays in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras and a series of interviews with both pro and anti-government groups...