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Last month, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn endorsed a proposal to experiment with a clean needle exchange program for intravenous drug addicts. Although the plan fails to address the question of drug abuse, it has proven very successful in Great Britain in combatting the spread of the disease. Dukakis balked at the plan, and--always a man with open mind--said he would refuse to support it, even if it proved successful in Boston. Apparently, the governor is only willing to support an issue when it is: non-controversial, does not require him to act as a leader and does...
...During the Iowa caucuses, Dukakis aired commercials criticizing the Reagan adminstration for failing to address the problem of homelessness. In the commercial, Dukakis uses an exploitative picture of a homeless person outside the White House. Perhaps Dukakis had been in Iowa so long he had forgotten that his campaign could just have easily used a similar picture outside the State House in Boston...
...nation's streets were quiet. Washington had hoped that demonstrators would respond to Delvalle's address with "people power" mass protests like those that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. Whether out of apathy or fear of confronting Noriega's soldiers, Panamanians mostly stayed at home. "Everything is going pretty much according to plan," said a U.S. observer. "But where are the Panamanian people?" By Friday night all indications were that Noriega had never been in serious danger of losing power...
...secretary-general of the African National Congress, is serving a life sentence for sabotage and whose son Zwelakhe, a newspaper editor, has been in detention without charge for more than a year. The 18 were instructed not to participate "in any manner whatsoever" in organized political activity, not to address any meetings of more than ten people, and not to give interviews or write anything for publication...
...culmination of lifetimes spent on skates, first in Cornwall, N.Y., where Bonnie was born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie's," says Eleanor Blair...