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...calls radical reform. Before the plenum, some Western analysts suspected that perestroika was largely a rhetorical exercise backed by a set of diluted half- measures. But Gorbachev's latest proposals, along with recent declarations by some of his key economic advisers, point to more far-reaching structural changes. Economist Abel Aganbegyan, for example, has advocated letting prices rise to market levels. At present, government subsidies on such items as food, clothing and shelter run to $114 billion a year, straining the government budget and encouraging shortages and inefficiency. Aganbegyan has also raised the possibility of closing "thousands" of unprofitable enterprises...
...senior adviser didn't know any of us. She thought we were irresponsible," says Glendon Abel III '89, one of the eight freshman involved in last May's computer case. The Ad Board at first required the students to withdraw for having programmed the University computer to print out, "This computer test sucks" during the Quantitative Reasoning exam. The students appealed in person, which they said proabably played a key role in helping them reduce their sentences to probation...
...class of "academic gypsies." Among the 32,000 professors in California's university system, the country's largest, about 33% are temporary. Nationally, of 700,000 faculty, 30% of professors in some of the liberal arts are not permanent; the percentages range downward in other fields. Emily Abel, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of a book on college employment, says of the growing race of gypsies, "They're like any part-time employees that McDonald's would hire . . . cheap labor that colleges and universities are relying on to save money...
...episode in Jeffrey Archer's First Among Equals, a 1984 best seller. But if truth is often stranger than fiction, there are also fewer happy endings. So it was for Archer, 46, deputy chairman of the Conservative ! Party and the author of six top-selling novels, including Kane and Abel and the current best seller A Matter of Honor. Last week the Sunday News of the World (circ. 4.8 million) carried a five-page story claiming that Archer had offered Prostitute Monica Coghlan (pounds)2,000 ($2,800) to pay for a trip abroad to avoid scandal. The same...
...time of Kane and Abel (1979), Archer was out of debt and into fame. That brought him to the attention of Thatcher, who liked his novels and comeback success story. She tapped him for the party post, where he drew good crowds on the political circuit...