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...rush? Gorbachev's reasons were ostensibly domestic. In addition to his headaches in the Baltics, the Soviet leader faces a June session of the Congress of the Russian Federation, the deliberative body of the Russian republic. That will be followed by the crucial 28th Communist Party Congress, starting on July 2. At that meeting Gorbachev is expected to consolidate the transfer of his power base from the party to the newly formed presidency. "He cannot simply turn up at these meetings," said a Soviet spokesman. "He has to prepare for them." Administration officials admitted that the earlier summit allows Gorbachev...
...party. That may only be a question of months, at least until the party holds its congress in early summer. "As President," he told the parliamentarians, "I want to wish the Communist Party -- the country's most influential political force -- success in implementing its platform for its 28th Party Congress." Those words had the sound of a fond farewell...
...would like to correct some inaccuracies in a recent Crimson article regarding my first year as the state representative for the 28th Middlesex District ["A Year After Victory, Thompson Faces Opposition...
Those who suggest I am not accessible clearly haven't called my office, written a letter or attended the scores of neighborhood and civic functions and meetings where residents have expressed their concerns to me. Alvin E. Thompson 28th Middlesex District
...tensely awaited speech, De Klerk last week went a long way toward accepting the demands listed by black opposition groups as conditions for the start of talks on a new constitution. Most important, he promised to release the world's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, now in his 28th year of imprisonment, though he did not say when. De Klerk legalized more than 60 banned organizations, lifted emergency restrictions on the press and on 374 political activists, suspended executions and put a six-month limit on detentions without trial. He also promised to lift the remaining elements of the state...