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...talk of the town. For that matter, of practically every town. Their story made the network newscasts and countless columns across the U.S., and once the split became a fait accompli, gossipists gleefully predicted that ramifications -- from a rowdy settlement battle to the wooing of new partners -- might drag on deliciously for, oh, a decade. The Rockies may tumble, Gibraltar may crumble, they're only made of clay, but gossip is heaven-sent and here to stay...
...antismoking group, the Advocacy Institute, released copies of a marketing plan for Dakota that had been leaked to the institute. The documents, which call the cigarette Project VF, for virile female, describe the typical customer as an entry-level factory worker, 18 to 20 years old, who enjoys watching drag races and aspires "to get married in her early 20s and have a family...
Earlier this month, after a political knock-down-and-drag-out in which the reformers routed the last of the Old Guard, Lukanov emerged as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He is a key member of a new, Gorbachevite leadership that is liberalizing the economy, is ready to share power with non-Communists and looks likely to do well in the free, multiparty elections it plans to hold in May. It would be nice to say you read about him here first, in a scouting report 17 years ago. But then maybe you wouldn't be reading about...
From Pretoria's point of view, the longer talks drag on, the better. De Klerk hopes to win international approval -- and the end of economic sanctions -- by simply opening negotiations with legitimate black leaders. He also hopes that prolonged talks will stall the antiapartheid movement and drain the fervor from its protests...
...negotiations but all attempts to pare the laws of segregation. At worst, they talk of secession and partition, retreating to a smaller but still pure Afrikaner land where whites would dominate. While the conservatives probably cannot block De Klerk from pursuing reform, their reactionary attitudes act as a heavy drag on attempts at compromise. The challenge for De Klerk is to build enough white support for each step as he inches ahead...