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Both of the old parties are in the grip of the psychosis that increasing arms are the answer to security," he added. And in the domestic sphere, he said, even the Democrats aid programs are "about like sending a get well card to someone who is terminally...
...growing probability that OPEC has lost its grip on oil prices threw the financial markets into turmoil. Gold, a favorite inflation hedge, plunged to $408.50 per oz., down nearly $100 in eleven days, before rebounding a bit to $415 at week's end. On Wall Street, the prospect of a brisk economic recovery unleashed another stampede in the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at record highs on four consecutive days, finishing the week at an alltime peak...
...tough town fabled for the lock grip of its Democratic political machine, Washington campaigned vigorously against the party organization and sought to write its obituary. "By today's vote the Democratic Party has been returned to the people," he said. "It is all over for the machine," agreed Don Rose, a Democratic strategist who worked for Byrne in 1979. "Washington is not going to rebuild...
...Dennis J. Kearney '72. The youngest candidate at 33 years of age, the Suffolk County sheriff combines excellent fundraising and organizational skills with a flamboyant campaigning style--his vice-grip handshake is now legendary. Kearney began his political career as a service coordinator at White's East Boston Little City Hall and served as a state representative for East Boston and Charlestown between 1974 and 1977 before his appointment to his present post...
...broad range of options available to the KGB is evident in its control of religious groups. Arrests of Russian Orthodox priests are rare because the party holds the mostly docile church hierarchy firmly in its grip. Protestant believers, mainly Baptists, Pentecostalists and Adventists, who refuse to register with the state, are routinely arrested and sent to labor camps. In the Roman Catholic republic of Lithuania, where clergy arrests might rouse nationalist feelings, three priests have been killed since October 1980 under suspicious circumstances; one was apparently pushed into the path of a speeding truck. Thousands of Soviet Jews who have...