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...march toward democracy for a decade, Lech Walesa suddenly seems out of step with the times. Last week Walesa stumbled badly when he admitted publicly for the first time that he wanted to be Poland's President and proposed that elections be held as soon as possible. "I confirm," he responded cryptically but clearly to a question about his candidacy. "It is necessary to speed up the pace of reform and demolish the old structures...
...been constantly underestimated," said Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, who would neither confirm nor deny reports of Kohl's Commencement address...
...that Baghdad is not involved in the development of nuclear weapons. At the same time, Baghdad officials asserted that Iraq reserves the right to secure advanced technology. Saddam fumed publicly that enemies were trying to halt Iraq's "march on progress." But those obstinate words seemed only to confirm Saddam's intent to build a nuclear bomb. Not that he is very close to the goal: most experts believe that Baghdad is still several years away from realizing its dream. "They're smuggling detonators when they don't have anything to detonate," says Stan Norris of the Natural Resources Defense...
...That's what I do," he said. His attorney suggested he might even try to persuade Exxon to reinstate his client as skipper of an oil tanker. As unlikely as that now seems, no one can dismiss the surprising reversal of perception that last week's verdict seemed to confirm. Said Mei Mei Evans, coordinator of an Alaska-based coalition of environmentalists called the Oil Reform Alliance: "Exxon and Hazelwood are just two agents in a very complicated and very flawed system of extraction and transportation of petroleum...
...Office of Financial Aid at Byerly Hall declined to confirm the estimate of Harvard's tuition hike provided by Rudenstine...