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...backup duplicate. Though there are few new gewgaws, ABC is celebrating the Olympic debut of its tiny point-of-view camera, a 2-in., 2 3/4-oz. black box that can be attached to the front of a bobsled, a skier's boot, even (via a special wheeled apparatus) a hockey puck. No P.O.V. camera will be used during actual competition, but ABC plans to strap one, for example, to the helmet of the "forerunner" who skis the course just before the start of the downhill races. "We're putting cameras where they have never been before," says Pierre De Lespinois...
Michigan Republicans decided to stage the earliest selection process of any this year, beating out even Iowa. They returned to a kooky, multitiered convention system starting 27 months before the general election. As the regulars slept, conservative supporters of Pat Robertson and Jack Kemp took over the party apparatus. When George Bush's partisans woke up, a series of bruising lawsuits followed. After last week's debacle, the result may be a contested delegation. Says Field Reichardt, a moderate who helped draft the Michigan plan: "We should never have done this. In the short run, it's causing our party...
...himself. But at the Politburo session called immediately after Chernenko's death, Romanov reportedly tried a stop- Gorbachev maneuver, nominating Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin for General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo; he has since moved up to full membership.) Andrei Gromyko, then Foreign Minister, carried the day with a nominating speech for Gorbachev during which he coined the now celebrated remark, "This...
...start of this period of ferment and change, Gorbachev removed himself and Raisa from the relative sophistication of Moscow and returned to the Stavropol area, where he was to stay for the next 23 years. According to Neznansky, the young graduate tried for a position with the Moscow Komsomol apparatus but lost out to a classmate and had little choice but to return to the provinces if he wanted to continue a career in party politics. It may be too that Gorbachev felt an obligation to the Stavropol Krai (territory) authorities, who had apparently paid part of his university expenses...
Concerning the freshmen, who lack a standardized apparatus for decision making, the council resolved to have its freshmen members publicize an open meeting of the class of '91 to discuss the condom issue...