Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would not be a candidate in this week's election by Parliament for the powerful new office of President. Instead, with Solidarity's approval, the party is expected to nominate General Czeslaw Kiszczak, 63, the Interior Minister who won the confidence of the union as the government's main negotiator during the round-table talks that led to the democratic reforms. Moscow has invited Walesa to come for a visit to discuss the political situation...
...sample spot, attorney Thomas Stoddard of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund declares that "the days when gay people could never be themselves, when gay issues were never discussed, will never come again." That is undoubtedly true. But most gays would also agree with one of Kirk's main points: "Success will only come when we've managed to push up and down to the other side the huge national rock of hatred...
...week an L.D.P. candidate lost badly (51% to 44%) to a Japan Socialist Party member in a by-election in Niigata prefecture, usually considered solidly L.D.P. The ruling party was quick to blame the three woes for its defeat. Niigata is the heart of rice- growing country, and the main farming cooperatives declined to endorse the L.D.P., citing the agriculture protection issue...
...there is absolutely no reason why Fallows should include the story of how as a college senior he sicked-out of Vietnam--an intriguing story that is hopelessly and misplaced in this book. These distractions detract from Fallows' main thesis, the uniqueness of American culture, and serve only as unnecessary interruptions in this otherwise consistent book...
...opinion in favor of Johnson was written, not surprisingly, by one of the court's last liberal lions, Brennan. Equally unsurprising, the most consistent conservative on the bench, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, crafted the main dissent. What was noteworthy, however, was the unusual lineup behind them. John Paul Stevens, who by virtue of the court's rightward swing is now considered a liberal, joined with Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White in dissent. On the other side, Ronald Reagan's two conservative appointees, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, showed that when basic First Amendment rights were involved, they could...