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...were accustomed to having somebody tell us everything. Now we have to think for ourselves." Despite the long line outside, Fyodorov worries. "Who knows how it will be a year from now? There are 50 other cooperatives planning to open restaurants in Moscow, and soon we'll face harsh old capitalist competition...
...charter and backed them up by borrowing the U.S. system of judicial review. "Thank God they put in the fundamental rights," says Nani Palkhivala, a constitutional expert who was India's Ambassador to Washington in the late 1970s. He observes, "Since 1947 we have had more harsh and repressive laws than were ever imposed under British rule." Indian courts, however, overturned most of them...
...Harsh, yes. But many see such treatment of hazardous AIDS carriers as justified. Explains Stanford Law Professor Thomas Grey: "It's the same as locking up someone who is going around stabbing people." Agrees Dr. David Cohn, a Denver public-health official: "When Patrick Henry said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' he wasn't talking about AIDS." Still, it is now clear that the more the disease spreads, the more the civil liberties of its victims are likely to suffer. Necessarily, public well-being takes precedence over individual rights, notes Larry Gostin, Harvard professor of health...
Despite Gorbachev's harsh critique, his campaign for glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) seemed intact last week. Reports circulated in Washington that Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze might soon meet in an attempt to resolve remaining differences on an arms accord, and thus pave the way for a summit. Gorbachev's campaign for "democratization" bore fruit last week as the Soviets conducted their first experiment in multicandidate balloting. In 5% of the country's roughly 52,000 districts, voters chose from a list of candidates that exceeded the number of available posts. Ironically, Gorbachev...
Ever since she was named Miss America in 1945, Bess Myerson has been accustomed to the flattering spotlight, not the glare of harsh headlines. But now even her friend New York City Mayor Ed Koch concedes that Myerson has % "fallen from grace." Her slide began earlier this year, when she stepped down from her post as the city's commissioner of cultural affairs after her boyfriend, Building Contractor Carl Capasso, was indicted on federal tax- evasion charges. Myerson hit bottom last week when Koch released classified details of an official investigation charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel...