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...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Jaruzelski has won a reputation as both a fervent Polish patriot and an unshakable party loyalist. In introducing him to parliament last week, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania said: "Now as black clouds hang over Poland, he is the best man to whom the helm could be offered." Perhaps. But those clouds will sorely test his capacity for reconciling the conflicts between his nation and his ideology...
...transcending everyday pop. But the Latin beat of "Do It Again," the tight guitar work on "Reeling in the Years," seems, in retrospect, contrived and commercial. Now, the band members change from cut to cut, but it doesn't matter. As long as Becker and Fagen are at the helm, everything meshes, sounding like a jamming session between George Benson and the Doobie Brothers (they're even guilty of spawning the new Doobie sound...
...Walesa's fortunes changed astonishingly when he scaled the gate of Lenin Shipyard last Aug. 14 to seize the helm of an angry strike movement. He became the workers' natural choice to head the independent union that emerged from that historic confrontation. Looking back over his long struggles, he remarks: "They have been tough years, tough on my wife and children. But I couldn't give...
Harvard did not let up. With Greg Gizzi at the helm in the second quarter, the Crimson offense began a time-consuming drive at its own 32-yd. line. Thirteen plays later, Gizzi combined with Tim McGugan for a dazzling 27-yd. catch-and-run touchdown...