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...Hampden County distraught officials decided in 1988 to adopt emergency release practices. Jailers like Michael Ashe were not enthusiastic. Criminals' walking free so early, Ashe believed, undermined prison management. "This is not the Vienna Choir Boys," he often complained to judges. Highly regarded for his frank and even manner, Ashe is a former social worker who has instituted reforms such as drug programs and data reporting at Hampden. Inside the prison, early release was mockingly referred to as "unearned good time," as opposed to the traditional time off earned for good behavior. Street criminals figured that the odds had shifted...
...emerging Soviet policy cuts back expensive military commitments in favor of cheaper political solutions, with Moscow exhorting Third World allies to adopt glasnost- and perestroika-style reforms. "The Third World," says Andrei Kozyrev, a senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official, "suffers not so much from capitalism as from a lack of it." What this means for Moscow's Asian, African and Middle Eastern clients is a drying up of crucial economic and military funds -- and a shift in their own attitudes...
...previous years, Walsh tended to serve as a spokesperson for a strong conservative bloc that often dominated the nine-member council. Now that Walsh's conservative allies no longer control the council majority, the third-term councillor says he has had to adopt more agressive tactics...
After unification, East Germany will adopt West Germany's market-oriented economy, and the going could initially be rough for East German companies and workers. Aging and inefficient East German industries like automobile manufacturing, which produces the pathetic 26-h.p. Trabant, will face competition from modern, powerful West German counterparts like Daimler-Benz. This could cause widespread factory closures and job losses, which never happened in the old centrally controlled East German economy. A report by the European Community leaked two weeks ago estimates that East Germany, which now has a worker shortage, could have 15% unemployment -- 1.2 million workers...
...Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert Kasten would adopt a smaller and more gradual payroll-tax reduction, while removing the trust funds from the rest of the budget calculation and outlawing Social Security benefit cuts...