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Some members will not go even that far. Beneath the New Forum umbrella are half a dozen smaller groups that bear such optimistic names as Democratic Awakening and Movement for Democracy Now. One of them, the United Left, seeks to eliminate the ruling party's Stalinist heritage and to form independent trade unions, but its members are avowed Marxists who fret that any "fundamental opening up of society" could threaten Communist rule. These differences could make consensus difficult if the New Forum attempts to draw up an agenda. For now, the various factions are not inclined even to merge. Says...
...chronic food problems by energizing seeds, compelling them to produce larger crops. When Chumak was yanked off the air by skeptical superiors, a popular outcry brought him back. A Siberian fan in Bratsk wrote to a newspaper, "Here we can't buy medicine and we have no hope left for the Soviet health system. Don't criticize those who are trying to relieve our sufferings...
Whether or not that ever happens, music has already left a deep mark on Woody's artistic achievement. No one who has seen his films can fail to appreciate how effectively he uses the scores to reinforce the visuals -- from the Gershwin themes of Manhattan to the Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong ballads of Stardust Memories to the brooding Schubert string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never...
...player most likely to give the Giants fits is left fielder Rickey Henderson, 30. All he did against Toronto was reach base on 14 of 23 times at bat, score eight runs, drive in five more, hit two homers and steal eight bases in as many tries. On the base paths he drove Blue Jay pitchers nuts. Like Canseco, Henderson is hardly humble. "I'd say I'm the decade's best lead-off man," he declares. "If people feel I'm one of the best who ever played the game, that's nice to hear." Opposing players call Henderson...
...with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that may be gobbled up by a mine...