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Gorbachev, 5-ft. 9-in., stocky and balding, has amply demonstrated both teeth and smile in a whirlwind half-year. He has taken hammer and sickle to the country's bureaucracy. To date, 22 of 121 regional Communist Party first secretaries and dozens of officials in major cities and republic ministries have been fired. At the top, Gorbachev has named four new voting members of the Politburo, bringing its membership to 13, and nine new government ministers. Grigory Romanov, 62, the Leningrad party boss who was widely considered to be Gorbachev's chief rival, was unceremoniously dumped from the Politburo...
Your article on computer firms that are in trouble [Sept. 5] reported that "around California's Silicon Valley, the talk is that North Star and Cromemco, both suppliers of office systems, are hurting." Cromemco, a leading manufacturer of high-performance microcomputer systems, recently ended its first fiscal half-year with a 42% revenue increase over the same period last year...
...civilian death toll in El Salvador had gone from 160 a month to, say, 143, then the Reagan Administration could assert that the government of El Salvador was making progress toward protecting human rights. But you report that civilian deaths rose from 160 a month to 177 during a half-year period. How can our Government possibly claim that the human rights situation has improved...
...report also argued that education has been battered for the last 20 years by a "rising tide of mediocrity." The commission called for high schools to require four years of English, three each of math, science and social studies and a half-year of computer science...
...next day, against Frenchman Henri Leconte, 19, Borg went down 4-6, 7-5, 7-6. Still, his sights are set differently now. "I know exactly what I want to do," said Borg of a newfound love of relaxation that developed during his half-year layoff in 1982. "I'm not going to play any more tennis. There's no more pressure. It's over." Over perhaps, but certainly never forgotten...