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Almost alone as the last holdout against capital punishment is Mario Cuomo, who two weeks ago vetoed a death-penalty bill for the eighth time since he became Governor of New York...
...newspaper Business Day last week that he plans to launch a blitz by balloon, attaching leaflets advocating revolution to helium bags and floating them over his homeland. With the rest of Eastern Europe changing so swiftly, he said, the time is ripe for a softening of the last Stalinist holdout on the Continent...
...capital and other parts of the country, several days of heavy fighting between the army and holdout members of the Securitate, Ceausescu's omnipresent secret police, were followed by sporadic sniping and skirmishing. In front of the all-seeing television cameras at Bucharest's national TV studio, where tanks and troops had beaten back several determined Securitate assaults, a self-appointed 60-member National Salvation Front took charge of the country and named a transitional government until free elections, promised for April, could be held. In short order, demonstrators stormed back into the streets to oppose the inclusion of former...
Syria led the Arab chorus of condemnation when Egypt began peace negotiations with Israel, breaking off diplomatic relations shortly after Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem in 1977, two years before the Egyptian- Israeli peace treaty was signed. And Syria remained the most stubborn holdout until last week, when Damascus and Cairo announced that the two countries would resume relations after a twelve-year hiatus. The restored ties will be celebrated sometime in January at a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Hafez Assad. One possibly helpful result of their detente: a moderation in Syrian opposition...
...that many of his Hollywood peers covet. Too commercial, he was thought to feel. But last week word circulated that the star of Cool Hand Luke and Blaze had agreed to do a TV spot for American Express for a reported $2 million to $5 million. Meryl Streep, another holdout in the celebrity-endorsement sweepstakes, is also believed to be considering a deal with Amex, but corporate officials have refused to comment...