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Inside Hamburg's ultramodern Congress Center, delegates to the seventh conference of the Greens, West Germany's amalgam of antinuclear protesters, peace demonstrators and environmentalists, largely ignored one of the many slogans on the banners: WE GREENS MUST STICK TOGETHER. So far apart were the party's two factions-the fundamentalists, who remain faithful to the party's nonpolitical roots, and the realists, who want to have an impact on national policy-that the conference nearly split the party. At issue: whether to forge a coalition with the left-leaning Social Democratic Party...
...felt free to participate. But counting the Independent Liberals, five parties refused to take part on the grounds that the procedures under which the elections were held were unfair. Serving as an umbrella organization for the other nonparticipants was Nicaragua's most prominent opposition group, the Coordinadora, an amalgam of four opposition political parties, labor unions and businessmen led by Arturo Cruz Porras, a former Sandinista junta member. As a result, in Washington's view, no one except the Sandinistas had any chance...
...abroad that the Sandinista government legitimately represents the Nicaraguan people. What makes the vote especially suspect in U.S. eyes is the absence of a strong opponent to Ortega. Arturo Cruz Porras, a former member of the Sandinista junta, originally planned to head a ticket backed by the Coordinadora, an amalgam of opposition political parties, labor unions and businessmen. Cruz's supporters, however, demanded concessions from the Sandinistas, including a relaxation of press censorship. After several weeks of bargaining, the talks broke down. Though foreign diplomats in Managua agree that the Coordinadora could not have won the election, it stood...
...said. "It isn't something like the old school tie that you wear. You band together in a political party because of certain beliefs of what Government should be. Now, if Democrats have come to believe in the same things Republicans believe in, then there should be an amalgam of those two elements of the parties." Shades of F.D.R., who once secretly communicated with Wendell Willkie about changing the parties into conservatives and liberals...
...movie opens with a sweat-dripping scene of the Kid and his band "Revolution"--who are dressed like an amalgam of Errol Flynn and Donna Summer and make Bette Midler's antics look angelic--onstage at the First Avenue Club & 7th Street Entry, a Minneapolis club where Prince also used to play. In the middle of "Let's Go Crazy," enter Apollonia, a New Orleans singer trying desperately to make it in the business. While success continues to elude her, she soon finds both the Kid and his worst enemy, the smoother-than-oil, quintessentially villainous Morris...