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Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb and his wife Sondra often wine and dine Washington's most glittering names. One figure they would rather not meet, however, is Whitney North Seymour Jr., the independent counsel attempting to prosecute former Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver for perjury. Last week Seymour tried to subpoena the Gotliebs to testify about Deaver's involvement in Canadian affairs while in the White House...
...paper stock in serially numbered boxes sells for $125.95. Similarly, Fleer has gone upscale with its Commemorative Collectors Edition, encased in elegant gold-lacquered tin and extolled for its "meticulous detail and masterful craftsmanship" (up to $129.95). "There's no end in sight to all the different sets," says Allan Kaye, editor of Baseball Card News, a trade paper. The most novel selling approach may come from Major League Marketing. Its staple issue, Sportflics, features a polarized image process with three sequential action shots of a player on each card. A pack of three cards retails for 59 cents. Crows...
...election results were sharply criticized by shocked nonwhite leaders inside and outside the country. In Cape Town, the Rev. Allan Boesak told a press conference, "White voters have made their position clear. They support the state of emergency. They support the detention of thousands of children without trial, and they support the actions of the security forces." All that was left for opponents of the government to do, he continued, was to resist "as strongly as we can." Almost as vehement in his criticism of the election results was Chief Minister Buthelezi of the KwaZulu homeland, who is often described...
...home. In 1970 the figures were 54% and 41%. Also, 14% of men and 8% of women ages 25 to 34 are dependent on their parents for housing, compared with 9.5% and 6.6% in 1970. "This is part of a major shift in the middle class," & declares Sociologist Allan Schnaiberg of Northwestern University. He should know: Schnaiberg's stepson, 19, moved back in after an absence of eight months...
...firmly believe that there should be some courses in the Core Curriculum that focus on American ethnic minorities," said committee member S. Allan Counter, who directs the Harvard Foundation, a University agency founded in 1981 to address the concerns of minorities. "Everyone should [receive some] education about the people we live with in this society...