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...right, a coalition of Independent council hopefuls have joined with Councillor William H. Walsh to form the "Today's Independents" slate. The slate's members are unified by their support of Proposition 1-2-3, a ballot referendum that would drastically alter rent control...
Krenz, who had long been expected to succeed his mentor, will get no honeymoon, since the change at the top does not alter the crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts...
WORLD: East Germany gets a younger leader, but changes at the top may not alter the mounting crisis down below...
...cells. The nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, served as repositories of genetic information, and certain proteins, called enzymes, did all the work. But research conducted in the past decade by Sidney Altman of Yale University and Thomas Cech of the University of Colorado at Boulder has forced scientists to alter completely their ideas not only of how cells function but also of how life on earth began. Last week the Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to Altman and Cech, with the citation that "many chapters in our textbooks have to be revised" as a result of their pioneering studies...
Proposition 1-2-3 would drastically alter the city's rent control system by allowing tenants who have lived in their rent-controlled apartments for more than two years to buy them. Although proponents of the measure argue that it would give many people an otherwise unavailable chance to own their own homes, critics point out that it could reduce by thousands the city's supply of affordable housing...