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...count on some support from the urban middle class. He has played on the war weariness of the Afghan people with a series of peace-and-prosperity initiatives. "Najibullah is well organized and intelligent," one of the few diplomats still in Kabul told TIME's Paul Hofheinz, "which is more than you can say for the opposition...
DIED. Roy Mark Hofheinz, 70, rambunctious, larger-than-life Texas entrepreneur and showman whose Houston Astrodome was the world's first indoor stadium; of a heart attack; in Houston. After passing the bar exam at 19, becoming the nation's youngest elected county judge, and serving as manager of Lyndon Johnson's unsuccessful 1941 Senate campaign, Hofheinz vowed to make a million dollars in less than a decade, which he did. Elected mayor of Houston at 40, he survived impeachment and eventually promoted the Astrodome, lavishly appointing the stadium with such splashy innovations as an electronic scoreboard...
...Hofheinz, professor of Government, said last week that the trial was "the Chinese equivalent of the Watergate proceedings." The Chinese ruling elite is attempting to "solidify their own position and authority for the next ten years," he added...
...Hofheinz said the purpose of the trial is "to tarnish the image of Mao," adding that Chinese leaders are "trying to do so in a way that is consonant with some set of legalistic values...
...trial is a facade of an ideological sort," Hofheinz said, adding that China is attempting "to develop the impression of a country ruled by law in a country ruled...