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...Manfred Gerlach, who heads a small party until now bound to the Communists, was named to replace Krenz in the ceremonial post of President. Honecker meanwhile was in quick succession expelled from the party, placed under house arrest and slapped with criminal charges. An additional 104 party functionaries and eight former Politburo members were also arrested...
...popular resentment against the discredited hierarchy. The allegations of illegal nest feathering have shocked and outraged ordinary citizens, party members and nonmembers alike. Disgrace knows no limits for Erich Honecker, less than two months ago the most powerful man in East Germany: last week the former party chief and eight of his erstwhile top lieutenants were formally charged by the state prosecutor's office with "enriching themselves through abuse of office." Seven of the ex-Politburo members were packed off to jail pending trial. Illness spared the other two, including Honecker, from suffering the same fate -- at least...
Welcome to the Senior Professional Baseball Association, where the crack of the bat meets the creak of the bone. Founded this year by Arizona real estate developer Jim Morley, the S.P.B.A. is into its first three-month season, fielding eight Florida teams of ex-major leaguers 35 or older (catchers may be 32). Most of the superstars are missing: Reggie Jackson is occupied with his classic autos, Jim Palmer with his underwear, Pete Rose with hawking his tarnished name. But enough good ole boys of summer are participating to help ease the winter of discontent every baseball addict endures between...
Well, maybe not big Senior Baseball business. The eight S.P.B.A. owners, each of whom staked a reported $850,000 for the first season, are not expecting quick profits. With some games attracting as few as 100 paying customers, a team or two may fold before the scheduled February play-offs. The players, whose salaries average $23,000, won't get rich either. But what they want is to prove, to themselves and others, that there is life after Fan Appreciation Day. "Hell," says ex-Yankee Graig Nettles in the S.P.B.A. yearbook, "if I can stay in baseball, I may never...
...late afternoon eight years ago, Griffiths Mxenge, a well-known black lawyer and antiapartheid campaigner in the city of Durban, was driving home when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge, drove him to a field outside a nearby soccer stadium, stabbed him repeatedly and then left him to die in a pool of blood...