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This fall's contest promises to be more difficult than in 1985, when the G.O.P. complacently assumed that race alone would defeat Wilder. This time he must inspire a larger than usual black turnout while persuading whites to put aside historic prejudices. To fend off criticism from conservatives, he has distanced himself from Jackson. Some militant black leaders in Richmond resent Wilder's retreat from his roots. But if he becomes Governor, he will have done what Jackson and other protest leaders have been unable to do: build a coalition that can put a black in a Governor's mansion...
...some ways UNLV goes further than many schools to fend off corruption. It falls to Warkentien, now assistant to the athletic director, to keep the players out of trouble. "I'm the damn cop, but it's an impossible job," he groans. Warkentien, ever on the lookout for illegal gifts from boosters, examines every player's monthly rent check and car titles. But in other ways the university is less vigilant. For example, school officials have formal arrangements with Las Vegas-strip casino restaurants allowing players to charge one training meal...
Ironically, Honecker and his elderly colleagues in the ruling Politburo have been able to fend off unpalatable reforms in large part because of huge subsidies from West Germany: some $1 billion a year in bank credits and other transfers. East Germany also profits from back-door access to the rich European Community market through West German middlemen. The special treatment reflects West Germans' strong emotional bond with their countrymen across the Berlin Wall -- and deep-seated hopes that the two Germanys may one day be reunited...
...society so that abortion (whether legal or not) is the option which seems most appealing to many pregnant women. Modern society need not be what it is now: a place in which young, single and poor women understandably fear that they will be left all alone, as mothers, to fend for both themselves and a child in the modern jungle...
...brass stammered that they did not have enough helicopters. "Come on," Bennett chided. "Tell me honestly, just how many helicopters do you have?" Before the answer came, the State Department rushed in to help fend off the rambunctious Secretary. "We can't be sending in helicopters with a big U.S.A. painted on them in red, white and blue," the diplomats argued. Bennett put on that slightly bemused, slightly menacing look that he gets before combat, and replied, "Then paint the hammer and sickle on them...