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Tran Bach Dang, a political adviser to General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh, told a group of foreign reporters that if pluralism were allowed tomorrow, there would be 200 political parties the next day. Notes a senior government official: "Factionalism has been the bane of our national existence. We are still two countries, though I fought to make...
...only the perennial bane of the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance but also a widening array of other economic conflicts threaten to poison the relationship over the coming months. During the election campaign that ended with balloting on Feb. 18, Washington muted its complaints about Japanese economic practices. Within hours after the scandal-shaken L.D.P. won a healthy victory, taking 275 out of 512 lower-house seats, the steady tattoo began again. "Kaifu is determined to deal with these problems," says a Tokyo bureaucrat. "They are on the top of his agenda...
...Securities and Exchange Commission has a new top watchdog. After toiling for twelve years as an SEC staff attorney, William R. McLucas, 39, last week was named director of enforcement. He succeeds Gary Lynch, 39, bane of inside traders Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine, who resigned last summer to take a job at a New York City law firm. McLucas suggested that after years of prosecuting high-profile Wall Street insider-trading cases, the agency might additionally focus more closely on basic securities abuses, in which brokers exploit unsophisticated small Main Street investors...
...Harvard's most attractive features for many perspective students is its lack of selective social clubs. Although the final clubs are still a bane to the Harvard community, so we can at least take comfort that their members make up only about 5 percent of the student population...
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the election...