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...real tests will be whether or not the military maintains a mechanism for dealing with Suu Kyi and instituting reforms, and what happens when the time comes to discuss political change. One conundrum is what to do about the 1990 election outcome in which the NID won 82% of the seats in a parliament the military refuses to convene. Suu Kyi has always insisted that the results be recognized. "Suu Kyi is ready to deal," notes Burma expert Joseph Silverstein of Rutgers University in the U.S., "but not to sell...
...helped more than 40 East European prostitutes escape. "The Georgian Mafia is the most violent: rapes, threats with guns and beatings." Equally notorious in Berlin and Prague: the so-called Chechen Boys, North Caucasians who reportedly deal in weapons, counterfeit money, drugs and women. Francine Meert, head of Le Nid, a Brussels aid group, says, "Many of the girls have broken teeth. They say they fell downstairs. But there are so many of them that either this business has the worst-maintained stairs in the world or these girls are being punched." In a brothel in Bautzen, Germany, last year...
...East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Party Boss Leo nid Brezhnev arrived in Dresden. The confrontation came only days after a Czechoslovak delegation returned home from Moscow with a Kremlin prom ise that the Russians would not in terfere with Dubcek's drive for "so cialist democratization...
Died. William Nuckles Doak, 50. Hoover Secretary of Labor, onetime railroad yardman; of heart disease; in "Notre Nid," his Virginia home across the Potomac from Washington...
Secretary of Labor Doak, with his estate "Notre Nid" (our nest) in Virginia, will stay on in Washington as lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...