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Understandably, many black leaders deeply resent these political shifts. M. Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition, expresses that sentiment in excessive terms. Says he of the nation's black communities: "There are raw wounds out there and a blind officialdom keeps flicking those wounds with a whip as if to see what will happen...
Only when elected officialdom finds the courage to say no to special-interest lobbyists will we stand a chance of reducing malignant inflation...
...surface, Choi continued to receive the support of the officialdom, including the military, and high marks from most observers. His Cabinet, sworn in before his own inauguration, seemed to be both neutral and competent. Selected as Prime Minister was Shin Hyon Hwack, a technocrat and former economic planning chief. The new Defense Minister was General Choo Young Bok, known as "Tiger Choo" to American officers in Seoul, and, curiously, the first South Korean Defense Minister with a knowledge of English good enough for direct communication with U.S. commanders. According to President Choi's earlier promise, the newly installed Cabinet...
While Westerners fretted about language difficulties and transportation, Soviet officialdom worried aloud about sinister influences. The chief of the Moscow City Communist Party, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin, said Muscovites should be cordial to visitors, but he exhorted them to "stress the advantages of the Soviet way of life ... and repulse the propaganda of alien ideas and principles...
...seized property and bank accounts as well as for a payment of two months wages, based on the victim's salary before imprisonment. Though he stands to gain little from his suit, Maloumian already feels amply paid by the irritation that he believes his case has caused Soviet officialdom. "The Soviet Union cannot possibly compensate for the years they took away from me," he says. "If I keep on fighting, it is to help my comrades who are still in prison. The only way for me to help them is to hang on to a fine point of law, until...