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...illusions. He knows his efforts are merely temporary. "I've given up freeing them so they can live in Kuwait," he says, "even though most have no charges filed against them. The best I've been able to do is improve conditions and try to organize a few subsidized charter flights so some can leave. And believe me, none of it would be possible if the government weren't made to see that the $60,000 a year to keep each one of them in jail was stupid. It is less expensive simply to kick them out. It all comes...
What particularly incensed Sergeyev and other supporters of traditional Marxist-Leninist doctrine was a draft charter that Gorbachev presented to the plenum of the party leadership -- the first complete restatement of basic principles in 30 years. In Sergeyev's view, Gorbachev's document was too "social democratic," a derogatory term among hard-liners. What he meant was that Gorbachev wanted to abandon basic communist principles. Instead, he has advocated a democratic, parliamentary-style party and a mixed economy. "If the Gorbachev line should triumph," warned Sergeyev, "there will no longer be a Communist Party -- not even in name...
...immigrants, and Jacques Chirac, the conservative mayor of Paris and former Prime Minister, has weighed in to the debate with a vengeance. He voiced sympathy for French families who have to live with the "noise and smells" of tenements inhabited by the newcomers. Cresson proposed last week to charter aircraft to send unlawful immigrants home, but an outburst of protests from fellow Socialists in Parliament caused her to withdraw the idea...
...moment, his fellow leaders were willing to go along. Under a charter adopted by the 81 delegates representing 24 different groups, the Eritreans, as well as any of Ethiopia's dozens of other nationalities, will have the right to self-determination and even secession. The delegates agreed that in two years Eritreans would vote on whether to break away from Ethiopia. Those who oppose the province's departure are plainly hoping that by then ^ independence will have lost its allure. Within that time, they anticipate, the Eritrean leadership will have failed to create a workable state...
...influence of politics on food policy is most clearly visible at the Agriculture Department. Written into its charter is a conflict of interest wider than a side of beef. Unlike its sister regulatory agencies, the USDA is obliged to promote as well as police agricultural products. Nutritionists are quick to point out that the department is responsible for regulating most of the fattier -- unhealthier -- elements of the diet. But its mandate to promote the consumption of beef, pork, dairy products and eggs gets in the way of its concerns for American health. "There's no David Kessler heading the USDA...