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Aronson, 44, grew up in a middle-class home in Rye, N.Y. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he became a VISTA volunteer in Kentucky. He later worked to overthrow the corrupt administration of United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle and then, back in Kentucky, he helped win a landmark coalworkers contract in 1974 -- an effort immortalized in the film Harlan County, U.S.A...
...assassination was hardly unusual. Drug trafficking has led to a spate of killings. However, in Mexico much of the violence is the work of corrupt police officials, who often operate under the guise of stepped-up narcotics enforcement. Despite President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's official condemnations of political corruption, complaints about savage human-rights abuses in Mexico have increased dramatically since he took office in 1988. In a report released in Mexico City two weeks ago, the Dominican Center for Human Rights declared that more than 100 summary executions took place during the first 14 months of Salinas' administration...
...avoided layoffs and higher prices. The relative obscurity of his opposition rivals and their lack of support among rural and industrial workers also helped. Iliescu has said he will model Romania's economy on that of Sweden, while retaining government control of heavy industry and agriculture. Having shed the corrupt Ceausescu, Romanians seem in less of a hurry to discard communism...
...this revival, the bitterness and irony that should contribute to what little comedy has transcended the mist of the ages is lost in an atmosphere of comraderie. With cuckolding and a corrupt clergyman taken so casually by the performers, the plot of the play seems trivial...
Compromise never comes easily in battles over the environment. It is simpler and more gratifying for everyone to denounce the opposition as fanatical or corrupt or under the control of sinister interests. So it seemed a bit of a miracle last week when the Senate approved broad new legislation against air pollution, the first since 1977, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee reported out a similar bill two days later. Both advocates and enemies of tighter pollution controls denounced the new legislation and vowed to fight on, but a final Senate-House compromise version is expected to reach...