Still, these days President Reagan may well be the public employee unions' best organizer because he is the nation's most prominent privatization enthusiast, rivaled internationally only by Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Within moments of Laurent Gbagbo's capture, French president Nicolas Sarkozy telephoned Gbagbo's rival, Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of last year's election.
It is impossible to know for sure if the group sided with Mr. Gbagbo because he is a Christian; his rival, Alassane Ouattara, recognized internationally as the winner of last year's presidential election, is a Muslim.
Torn into fiefs, it is riven by conflict between two rival governments—an internationally recognised one in Tobruk and another in Tripoli along with two main militia groupings allied with them.
Two rival bodies — an internationally recognized Council of Deputies based in the eastern city of Tobruk and a self-proclaimed continuation of the Islamist-dominated General Natinnal Congress locaTripolithepoli, the capital — have since jockeyed for political legitimacy, while a vast constellation of affiliated and unaffiliated militias battle for military supremacy.
Tony Hall has promised an "open BBC" that will collaborate with commercial rivals and expand internationally with an ethos of "excellence without arrogance".
They threatened that more strikes would come.Panicky officials from Libya Dawn, a loose alliance of predominantly western Libyan and Islamist militias that is currently ruling Tripoli, blamed Khalifa Haftar, the retired general backing the internationally-recognised rival government in Libya's east.
Before England play Germany in a friendly in Duisburg on Thursday, BBC Sport looks at how the gap between the old rivals is closing - both internationally and domestically.
The dominance of the likes of Facebook Messenger, Snapchat and Kik, not to mention the widespread usage of SMS and Apple's iMessage, has made the U.S. a tough market for Kakao Talk's more internationally successful rivals, which are now focusing on services rather than international expansion.
Mr. Gbagbo was still surrounded by forces loyal to his rival, Alassane Ouattara, the country's internationally recognized president, which were backed by troops from France and the United Nations.
