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...coup, the Peruvian military has published several statements promising to "respect democracy"; a once-popular, supposedly populist President Garcia has nevertheless sent his wife and children out of the country. Peru's United Left party now has an excellent chance of winning the 1990 elections--if these elections are held...
...authorities. Visiting the region in August, Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev declared that "the national factor should become one more motive force of perestroika." Nowhere has Moscow's apparent about- face in the Baltics been more evident than in the guardedly favorable recognition given the popular fronts. When the Estonians held an organizational congress in Tallinn two weeks ago, Communist Party First Secretary Vaino Valjas brought greetings from Gorbachev. At the end of a similar conference in Riga last week, Latvian party leader Janis Vagris stressed that "Communists and members of the Popular Front have common objectives...
...slumping morale, chief executive Peter Buchanan decided that it needed shoring up. After six months of negotiations, First Boston agreed last week to be taken over in a $1.1 billion merger with its European affiliate, Financiere Credit Suisse-First Boston. The new investment firm, which will be privately held, will be controlled by Credit Suisse, the giant Zurich-based banking company...
Those words failed to blunt the drive by Milosevic for greater power for himself and Serbia. As party meetings were held throughout the republics in preparation for a meeting of the 165-member Yugoslav Central Committee this week, there was talk that up to one-third of the members might be ousted in a pro-Milosevic shake-up and a purge of incompetents. The Serbian party, meanwhile, hammered away at the Kosovo issue. A Serbian party resolution, backed by Milosevic, demanded the ouster of three top Kosovo party officials, two of them ethnic Albanians. Warned Milosevic: "The people gather...
Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...