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...council race, she'd make quota twice over. But everyone who backed her for school committee two years ago voted for someone else, number one for city council--and most city voters take the council contest more seriously than the school race. If her voters prove loyal to her, Wolf will be a leader of the CCA candidates. Even if the majority of her school supporters vote for someone else, she enjoys such high name recognition that she is very, very likely to win a seat on the council...
...fact, the discord is being heard on Capitol Hill. Support for the President's economic programs among once loyal Republicans is beginning to weaken in Congress. "There are a lot of different signals,'' complained Republican Representative Jack Kemp of New York. In the House, Democratic leaders, with the help of Republican defectors, last week pushed through an appropriations bill for social programs to cost $87.3 billion in fiscal 1982, some $4 billion more than Reagan had wanted. Though the bill came within a whisker of matching Reagan's first round of budget slashes...
Sadat was an ambitious man, one of the first members of the lower class to go to military school, from which he graduated an officer. The army, a tight-knit and for the most part loyal group, became the center of his life, and his means for advancement. But advancement towards what? This is the dilemma that was to plague Sadat...
...Khomeini's command were further decimated last week when Defense Minister Mousa Namju, acting Staff Chief Valiollah Fallahi and two other ranking commanders were killed in the crash of a C-130 returning from the Iranian-Iraqi front. Although a spokesman for a group of former officers loyal to the Shah claimed to have sabotaged the plane, both the government and Mujahedin leaders believed the crash was most likely an accident. Only days earlier, Iran had claimed its "biggest victory" in the year-long border conflict when its forces broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan, a key oil-refining...
...unwillingness of the markets to stampede into a state of panic was also a major failure for self-styled Investment Expert Joseph Granville of Holly Hill, Fla. The stock market hip shooter, whose forecasts have been wrong as often as right, has over the years gained a large and loyal following among investors who subscribe to his weekly market newsletter and hang on his words as if he were the Vicar of Value...