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...black candidate can do that, it is Gantt. He is a far cry from Helms' description of him as "Jesse Jackson's candidate." An M.I.T.-trained architect, he operates in the smooth, reserved style of such rising black politicians as Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder. A veteran of sit-ins during the 1960s, Gantt demonstrated his crossover potential in 1983, when he ran for mayor of Charlotte, a city that was 75% white. He won with 52% of the vote...
Other honorary Brandies degree recipients were: Nathan S. Ancell, chairman of the board, emeritus, of Ethan Allen Inc.; Donald Hewitt, executive producer of "60 Minutes"; architect Philip Johnson; former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Norman Leventhal Beacon Companies; writer and novelist. Cynthia Ozick; and Simone Veil, former president of the European Parliamentary Assembly; and Clara McBride Hale, a New York City resident who has spearheaded programs for ill and drug-addicted children...
...Information Agency requested $15 million over three years to help build a display hall. Uh-uh, replied Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, chairman of the House USIA subcommittee: "We are no longer going to construct buildings and then pay to tear them down after only six months." Without funds for architect and construction contracts, warns Marvin Stone, the U.S. commissioner general for the fair, "the project will die this month." Moreover, a snub by the U.S. could jeopardize its remaining military presence in Spain...
...revival is attributable almost entirely to Vietnam's own perestroika, or doi moi, a program of radical economic "renovation" begun in 1986. Says Le Dang Doanh, a senior government economist and a principal architect of the program: "Vietnam does not consider Marxism to be holy dogma. We need to be creative." Only a few years ago, the state accounted for close to half of national income. Now it generates only 28% of national income, Doanh notes, while private enterprise makes up 40% and the remainder is a mixture of public and private ventures. The reforms include the abolition of subsidized...
...measure's architect, Rep. Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst), said he realizes the bill would not mean much in the current fiscal crunch, since the higher education system needs its entire appropriation. But he said he wants the program in place when times are better...