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EVITA Defying their Vice President's plea to boycott, Argentines flock to First Lady's resurrection on film...
...church members. Bavaria is screening them out of the state civil service and says it will deny funds to events that feature performers who are Scientologists. Cruise and jazz pianist Chick Corea, also a member of the U.S. church, have been the targets of a demonstration and a boycott, apparently with official approval...
Fields says he was aroused when some members of Germany's Christian Democratic Union Party called for a boycott of Cruise's Mission: Impossible. The boycott failed, but it prompted Fields to write and pay for the $56,700 ad. He insists he was not retained by any Scientology organization and never discussed the ad with anyone affiliated with Scientology. Both Cruise and Travolta, he says, have since thanked him for his initiative...
...election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed. "Nothing can be solved in the streets," said Aleksandar Vulin of Mirjana Markovic's Yugoslav United Left, charging opposition members to end their boycott of parliament. "If (protests) continue forever . . . then you must expect the state to defend itself." But opposition leaders fear that Milosevic's parliamentary strategy is merely a front to buy himself more time. Estimating Wednesday that more than 300 people have been injured and 100 arrested in clashes with police...
...country's current interior minister, and TIME's Theodor Troev reports from Sofia that several Socialist leaders have already proposed passing their governing mandate to the opposition party, possibly to form a coalition government. Ivan Kostov, head of the main opposition, said his party would end its 21/2-week boycott of parliament in hope of a compromise. "If there is the will and consensus, Parliament can endorse in a short term the necessary laws, and early elections can be called." Kostov said. But impatient leaders of Bulgaria's three major trade unions have called a nationwide strike beginning Wednesday that...