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HAVIARAS'S powers broaden when he shifts from describing the countryside to describing humanity. As Panagis and the others move away from the insect swarm, they find a man lying unconscious and nearly dead by the water. When they look inside the baskets of the man's mule, they see "the severed heads of four or five young men and women. The mule's owner was a headhunter, receiving pay for the heads of leftist sympathizers: Haviaras lingers on such scenes, making us feel, in the thoroughness of his description, the impact they have on Greek children...
...Pacific Basin and polishes his image as statesman while his Democratic presidential opponents prepare to slug it out in the Texas caucuses. For Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader although he holds no top government or party title, the journey will reaffirm China's determination to broaden its ties with the West. It will also allow millions of Americans following Reagan's trip on television to get an unusually close look at a nation that has undergone a major facelift 'in the nine years since Gerald Ford, the last U.S. President to visit China, landed in Peking...
...Hart pulled back from predicting that he would win a majority of delegates before the convention. "The contest gets down to one thing," he said. "It's not just who can get the most delegate votes-although I intend to get the most delegate votes-but who can broaden the base of the party...
...fundamental weakness in his campaign: to many voters, the old-line Democratic Party that he stands for has no driving theme. At the same time, Mondale's verbal jabs all but drowned out Hart's attempts to explain his new ideas, which he must do to broaden his support...
...Fedders and his boss, SEC Chairman John Shad, are cautious about a separate insider trading proposal before the Senate. Sponsored by New York Republican Alfonse D'Amato, it would strengthen penalties but also greatly broaden the legal definition of persons considered to be insiders. While that group is now limited to such individuals as company executives and major shareholders, the D'Amato proposal could apply to anyone from a secretary to a board chairman to a journalist who had inside information about a company. Last week Fedders warned Senators that a squabble over definitions could delay or even...