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...interior provinces can eventually hitch themselves and thus be pulled into the 21st century. The more conservative party leaders who support Li caution that the increasingly well-off coastal economies could create instability. But only the speed of the reforms is being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would cut 10,000 people, or 20%, of the State Council staff by the end of the year. The state-owned rail, oil, coal and nuclear industries would become public corporations under ministerial...
Khadaffy's isolation in the world community was broken only by a congratulatory telegram from Cambridge City Councilor Al Velluci...
...from his face. As he rushes through the channels of the Russian bureaucracy in vain efforts to reclaim his proboscis, the play treats the audience to delightfully unpredictable morsels of absurdism, such as the scene where the hapless Kovolyov encounters his nose, dressed in the uniform of a state councilor, praying at St. Isaac's Cathedral. "Excuse me, sir," says the nose, "but you are mistaken, for I am my own person...
...Antonio City Councilor Maria Berriozabal, who has endorsed Dukakis, said it wasn't so much his ability to speak Spanish that helped the governor but his views about economic opportunity...
Nobody remembers why, but in the early 1970s, the Harvard Lampoon fell afoul of then Councilor--now Mayor--Alfred E. Vellucci. And the semi-secret, social organization that occasionally publishes parodies came to regret...