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...turbulent Middle East, the U.S. at last withdrew its Marines from Lebanon. The U.S. in effect allowed Syria to become master of Lebanon, but the Syrians were not much more effective than anyone else in bringing peace to Lebanon's warring factions. Meanwhile, the Israeli population grew more and more weary with their occupation of southern Lebanon. With their economy in a tailspin (400% inflation then, more than 800% now), the Israelis delivered a mixed, and not very helpful, election verdict. Lacking a clear winner, the two rival blocs, Likud and Labor, set up an unusual arrangement in which...
...party. In the southern town of Madhuranthakam, a disgruntled politician, who had been refused a place on the party ticket by the Prime Minister, plunged the local election into chaos by persuading 84 people to join him in running as independent candidates. Having somehow been appeased, however, the malcontent withdrew from the race and the 84 others followed his example. And in the impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages came alive with Rajiv buttons, Rajiv banners, Rajiv posters and Rajiv hats. YOU LOOK...
...President's attempt to negotiate with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi for the withdrawal of Libyan troops from Chad led to a fiasco that has hurt Mitterrand's credibility in the one field where his competence had gone virtually unquestioned. After the French withdrew 3,000 paratroopers from Chad between last September and November, Mitterrand discovered that, contrary to the agreement with Gaddafi, a substantial number of Libyan troops remained. A chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that...
None of those precautions, however, were sufficient to assuage the fears of many Bhopal residents. Even as policemen bearing megaphones cried, "No danger, no danger!" tens of thousands of people left town in a hurry. Dressed in their best clothes, they packed belongings, withdrew money from banks and crowded into, and often on top of, buses and trains. Bicycles, bullock carts, three-wheel scooters and rickshas clogged the streets. With the detoxification still nearly 36 hours away, an estimated 200,000 of the city's 672,000 residents had fled...
...prominent opposition figures permission to travel outside the country. In addition, a much touted "national dialogue," in which political parties, church authorities and social groups were to join in thrashing out the nation's problems, began to fall apart when some members of the main opposition group withdrew, charging that the display of pluralism was an empty gesture. "The dialogue is the difference between war and peace," said an opposition member. "Nobody wants to say he's chosen war, but it certainly looks like an impasse...