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...Colorado legislator in the late '70s, Gorsuch, 39, led a successful battle to block her state's participation in the EPA's hazardous-wastes program. She also fought for less stringent auto emission standards in a Colorado clean-air law. Thus when President Reagan nominated her last February to be the nation's chief enforcer against pollution, environmentalists were appalled. They feared that she had been appointed less to run the agency than to dismantle it. As she completes the first year of her imperious reign-restive subordinates at EPA call her the "Ice Queen"-conservationists...
...estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized in August 1980. Since martial law was declared, there have been signs that the party would reorganize around a relatively small number of hard-core bureaucrats, the same people who resisted party liberalization and fought Solidarity at every turn. In the long run, there is little doubt that the party will reimpose its control over the life of the country...
Salisbury police have been unable to determine who planted the explosive. While not directly accusing whites, Mugabe blamed the "destabilization" in the country on the acts of those who had served the white government of former Prime Minister Ian Smith as it fought to prevent blacks from taking over what was then known as Rhodesia. Mugabe claimed that some of these counterinsurgency and sabotage specialists were still in the army and the police force. Said he: "We will take action against them. We are justified now." On New Year's Eve, three white police officers were arrested for allegedly...
...firm, though, will still retain its more profitable long-distance service, its manufacturing arm, Western Electric, and the Bell Telephone Labs. Said Ellinghaus of the terms: "This was not our idea. We fought hard to keep the system intact. But the public has made it very clear that it wants more choice and more competition in the business...
...scene of A Soldier's Play, which inaugurates the Negro Ensemble Company's 15th season. It is a drama of tensile strength that almost deflects attention from its flaws. The dead man is Technical Sergeant Vernon C. Waters (Adolph Caesar), a regular Army, "all Army" noncom who fought in World War I. The time is 1944; the place Fort Neal, La. Apart from its white officers, this is a black outfit consigned to menial and, sometimes, degrading tasks...