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Nyerere's successor is Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 60, former President of Zanzibar, a semiautonomous island off the Tanzanian coast.[*] Mwinyi was nominated to succeed Nyerere last September by the national executive committee of Tanzania's sole political party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. He will run unopposed in popular elections scheduled for this week. Meanwhile, in other parts of Africa, voters in the Ivory Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Félix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million...
...Benigno Aquino, who has become the moral voice of the anti-Marcos parties. She is the one candidate who is considered capable of uniting the fractious democratic resistance to Marcos. Mrs. Aquino has said she would run only if her supporters collected 1 million signatures in her favor. The sole declared candidate to date is former Senator Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 56 (see interview). Yale educated and the son of a former Philippine President, Laurel and his United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO) party have 49 of the 55 opposition seats in the National Assembly. His strongest challenger for the presidential nomination...
...done in a week, with more than 7,000 troops marshaling 1,500 settlers from their homes. The topography of the West Bank makes the evacuation here much more problematic than that in Gaza. The Gaza settlements are surrounded by Palestinian towns and a border fence. The sole entrance can be barred with relative ease. But the rocky West Bank mountains create a warren of ravines and valleys that the army is desperately trying to figure out how to close. The residents of Sa-Nur are working to set up secret routes for supporters to circumvent the army roadblocks...
...finally, I asked that she be serious. I wanted to see the rancor that allegedly is her sole contribution to public discourse (that and being a "lying liar," in Al Franken's estimation, as well as a "telebimbo" [Salon] and a "skank," according to a blog kept by Vanity Fair's James Wolcott). Why, I asked, did she enjoy attacking others and being attacked...
Cahow’s first collegiate lacrosse game was a trial by fire. With no game experience and barely any practice, she was Harvard’s sole option at keeper against No. 15 Penn...