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Last March's elections, in which 74% of those eligible voted, gave the government an indisputable legitimacy and seemed to justify the Reagan Administration's policy of supplying arms while pressing for reforms. Instead of talking about winning the war, Administration officials tried to bolster the economy and make the political system more democratic. They encouraged the newly elected Constituent Assembly, led by Rightist Roberto d'Aubuisson, to pursue a program of land redistribution and to improve the country's lamentable human rights record...
...journeyed to Poland to bolster the spirits of his countrymen in the face of Communist oppression. He has visited Britain and Argentina while they were at war with each other. Before the leaders of Brazil and the Philippines he has decried violations of human rights. Within earshot of the Northern Ireland border he has denounced terrorism. But none of Pope John Paul II's 16 previous foreign tours was as perilous, in terms of either church politics or of his own physical safety, as the one he begins this week...
...packs up and moves to its new site, it will try to make its merchandise more accessible to the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. That would further the store's attempt, which started in 1975, to expand beyond communist books. The new, wide range of topics--Socialism, Anarchism, Feminism--has helped bolster business...
With the appointment of his Oxford-educated daughter Lyudmila Zhivkova as head of the committee for culture in 1975, Zhivkov sought to bolster national identity and pride, reportedly to the displeasure of the Kremlin. It was Lyudmila, for instance, who was the guiding force behind the 1981 celebrations of the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state. Halfway through the anniversary year, however, Lyudmila died at age 38 of a brain hemorrhage. Since her death, no one else has emerged as a staunch crusader for Bulgarian nationalism...
...cold ugliness of the environment is set off against the powerful, raw life-forces of the high school kids, who find their outlet in American rock and roll songs. Gothar tries, however, to make this brutal contrast bolster up wooden acting, unimaginative cinematography, incomprehensible scenes and insignificant symbols, not too mention cliched, anemic dialogue...