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Over the course of the summer, the school had to contend with a number of similar hassles--including a five-week period in which the city stopped all trash pickups at the newly-acquired property. And although Commonwealth Day requested--and received--permission from the city to run a kindergarten in the building, it ran into immediate opposition from Brooks and other neighborhood resident when it applied for a special permit to run an elementary school...
...questions about the safety of a far more important weapon, the brand-new W-88 warhead carried by D-5 missiles fired by Trident II submarines. The D-5 is one of the principal weapons that would be launched at the Soviet Union in a nuclear war. Some scientists contend that the design of the third stage places too much rocket fuel too close to the warheads. Conceivably the fuel could ignite and detonate chemical explosives in the warhead while the missile was being handled in port, producing a potentially heavy leakage of cancer-causing plutonium dust near Trident bases...
...Give the people a greater voice. Liberal reformists contend that stability is built on economic prosperity and greater citizen participation. "How can you do your work if people run away as soon as they see you?" asked Li Ruihuan, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, in an interview with the People's Daily. "We should talk about something that the people are interested in and that can help them do away with their worries." None of the would-be successors to Deng can spin such sentiments into a platform of action, however, as long as the so-called gang...
Although the former ruler is legally entitled to communicate with the outside world, U.S. officials contend that he is intimidating witnesses who may be called to testify against him and is urging followers to harass the U.S.-backed government of President Guillermo Endara. "He's saying such things as our case against him is weak and that he will return once he gets off," says a Bush Administration official. "That scares an awful lot of people. He's also running a faction of the opposition, and his objective is to provoke as much instability as he can. Obviously, that...
...Moscow celebrated the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany last week, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov insisted that the Baltic states had been "liberated" by the Red Army, not occupied, as the secessionists contend. "We were met with flowers," said Yazov. But Soviet officials were the targets, of brickbats rather than bouquets in the three Baltic capitals, which jointly announced an agreement for the direct trading of their agricultural products among themselves, cutting out Soviet ministries...