Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kalb County, Ga., however, voters last month overwhelmingly rejected a 1% hike in the local sales tax, even though it was intended to offset part of the property tax. De Kalb's chief executive officer, Manuel Maloof, bemoans the deterioration of the federal highways and Washington's unwillingness to provide adequate funds for the national highway system and toxic-waste removal. But Maloof, a Democrat, is even more upset at his own inability to repair his county's sewers and pipelines. "It's all a residue of Ronald Reagan," Maloof says."He did more than most by telling...
JAMES MCMURTRY: TOO LONG IN THE WASTELAND (Columbia). A fine debut album that fixes a bleary, jaundiced eye on the back roads and byways of small-town life. McMurtry turns a lyric with irony and precision, even if his voice can't carry a tune as far as the barn door...
...East Germany's Communists struggled to dampen the volatile situation, their brethren in Hungary were busy taking steps that, even a few months ago, would have seemed impossible. A majority of the 1,274 delegates at a Communist Party congress voted to rechristen themselves the Hungarian Socialist Party. Hungarian Communism, for all practical purposes, was going out of business. Coming less than two months after the installation of Poland's first non- Communist government since the end of World War II, the Hungarian decision reinforced the historic shift taking place in Europe...
Some members will not go even that far. Beneath the New Forum umbrella are half a dozen smaller groups that bear such optimistic names as Democratic Awakening and Movement for Democracy Now. One of them, the United Left, seeks to eliminate the ruling party's Stalinist heritage and to form independent trade unions, but its members are avowed Marxists who fret that any "fundamental opening up of society" could threaten Communist rule. These differences could make consensus difficult if the New Forum attempts to draw up an agenda. For now, the various factions are not inclined even to merge. Says...
...chagrin of Soviet scientists, the thought bacteria are everywhere. Following the evening news on TV, hypnotist Anatoli Kashpirovsky holds seances to heal broken limbs, scars and blindness. Kashpirovsky claims to have helped hundreds of people through surgery without anesthesia and to have mesmerized others into losing up to 60 lbs. The Ukrainian has thousands of fans, apparently even among the bureaucracy. Last week, under official auspices, Kashpirovsky held a briefing at the Foreign Ministry Press Center. "People sometimes see me and idolize me," he said, adding that he could treat AIDS. "Give me 500 or 600 patients in a hall...