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...nola's name. Appointed to the seven-man ruling junta group that he clearly dominated, Spínola went on television with his colleagues to promise free elections "as soon as possible," a phrase later defined as some time within the next year. They also pledged to abolish the hated secret police in Portugal itself and grant full civil liberties. Censorship was lifted, and the Lisbon newspaper República placed a red box on its front page to announce the first uncensored edition anyone could recall...
...Danehy remains bitter over Sullivan's affair with the liberals and has repeatedly tried to break up the romance with attacks on several fronts. He already has introduced a measure before the council to abolish the controversial rent control board in Cambridge. The three CCA councilors and Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization defeated that measure with votes from Sullivan and Russell...
...coalition, which backed Walter Sullivan in the recent mayoral election, drew Danehy's fire last month when it overruled his motion to abolish rent controls in Cambridge. Danehy, who had vied for the mayor's post against Sullivan, this week still appeared to be bitter over the election loss...
Bokassa's malign authority has seldom been challenged since he deposed his cousin, David Dacko, in a New Year's military coup in 1966. One of his first official acts was to abolish Parliament, the constitution and elections. Today Bokassa is virtually a one-man government. He is not only life President, commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the only political party but, as a result of his periodic Cabinet shuffles, the holder of ten ministerial portfolios, ranging from Defense to Information to Mines. From his subjects he demands ostentatious displays of devotion...
...surrealists, the most determinedly shocking of the early modern artists, wanted to abolish tradition. They prided themselves on being revolution aries with no past, no precedents beyond the immortal, irrational desires of the human psyche. But one of the rules-of-thumb of art experience is that very little is wholly new. Witness, for example, the current exhibition at the New York Cultural Center entitled "Painters of the Mind's Eye: Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists." It offers, as well as 51 major works by Paul Delvaux and the late Rene Magritte, a tour of such virtually forgotten talents...