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...Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Ill. "What has changed in the past decade is that it is now publicly endorsed. Since the government has got into the business of being an operator of gambling itself, it has given ! ((betting)) an imprimatur." A 60-year-old former bookie and member of Gamblers Anonymous in Los Angeles who gives his name only as Freddy S. says, "All these states have the lottery. All these housewives and welfare recipients are going to get hooked. Kids aren't going to get diapers and food. You can pick up almost any newspaper...
...better target. Enormously popular among the troops, Ochoa is a veteran of Castro's revolution who has commanded troops in Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua. In 1984 he received the Hero of the Cuban Republic medal, the military's highest honor. Last week Ochoa was removed as a full member of the Communist Party Central Committee and an elected delegate to the National Assembly. The move against Ochoa may have been personal as well as symbolic. His popularity may have threatened Defense Minister Raul Castro, who is expected to succeed his brother as the country's chief power broker...
Hungary has no parallel to Solidarity's opposition, and what does exist is dominated by intellectuals. Instead, the push toward democracy is being led from within the Communist Party by members of its reform wing, most prominently by Politburo member Imre Pozsgay. At a meeting of the party's Central Committee last weekend, Pozsgay was nominated to become the country's new state President as soon as constitutional changes imbue that office with real power. The party's other leading reformer, Rezso Nyers, was tapped as party chairman. The moves diluted the power of General Secretary Karoly Grosz, who until...
Nonetheless the scandal is taking its toll. Last 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...
...elephant faces extinction in the wild. Japan is also preparing a new multibillion-yen program of environmental aid for developing countries. Government insiders promise the new emphasis on the environment will bring results. "Once Japan decides to do something, it can move very quickly," says Takashi Kosugi, a Diet member and the leading environmentalist in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...