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...spring, Turner decided to take advantage of opinion polls that showed his party with an eleven-point lead over the Tories. Immediately, however, the new Prime Minister committed his first major blunder: he reappointed nearly all Trudeau's ministers to his own Cabinet. Bowing to pressure from his predecessor, Turner also awarded cushy patronage posts to 17 Liberal colleagues...
...commonly referred to as Greeneland. But Graham Greene's burnt-out cases are rapidly being replaced by Latin American protagonists and European figures who have a fresher story to tell. Detrez is still an unfinished writer, and he lacks the craft and polish of his great predecessor. But he has a sense of the appropriate image and the right valedictory tone...
...years ago and, isolated from the influence of other societies, had been culturally trapped in the Stone Age. But recent studies of skeletons reveal the aborigines as a far more ancient people. There appears to be evidence from bone structure of two distinct migrations of modern man's predecessor, Homo erectus, to Australia some 40,000 years ago, one from Java and the other from China...
...implied that either Libya or Iran might be responsible. He later added that he hoped it was not Iran. "I think the Libyans were involved," he told reporters early last week. "But until now we are waiting to find one of the mines to confirm our suspicions." Like his predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, Mubarak has long been at odds with Gaddafi. Sadat once described the Libyan leader as "a vicious criminal, 100% sick and possessed of the demon." Mubarak's style is to be more restrained in his criticism of fellow Arab rulers, but he has often told...
...Party President Iona Campagnolo, who astutely took the matter into her own hands by returning the pat. In another meeting, Turner touched the same base with French Vice President Lise St.-Martin who gamely rallied behind her. At least, she declared, he is less cold aloof than his predecessor, Pierre Elliott "Now we're faced with a politician a lot more, uh, I hesitate to say hot," Tremblay. "Let's say he has warmth...