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Continuing his one-man crusade to fight the alleged "spread of collegesponsored depravity," a 1966 Harvard alumnus has sent letters to parents of male undergraduates warning that their sons are in imminent danger of becoming "pederasts" and "sodomists...
Strong words, but Modrow hardly uttered them from a position of strength. With most of Modrow's countrymen in favor of unification and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl handling the merger as if it were a one-man takeover, Modrow is finding it difficult to get anyone except perhaps his closest relatives to consider him relevant. And with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader...
Angered by what he claimed was an attempt to stifle his speaking privileges, Walsh embarked on a one-man crusade to block discussion of council business. Using privileges granted to all councillors under the city charter, the third-term councillor postponed action on no less than 11 council orders...
...most obvious contrast between F.W. and P.W. is temperament, not ideology. Die Groot Krokodil -- the Great Crocodile -- as Botha was not so affectionately called, was an irascible and imperious man who listened less as he grew older. De Klerk is an amiable fellow who prefers consensus to dogmatic, one-man rule. He has restored the Cabinet to the role of the premier policymaking body, and he has held more Cabinet sessions in five months than Botha did in his final two years. More refined than the boorish Botha, De Klerk has done away with some of the trappings of autocracy...
...Jung denounced Roh's gambit as a "political coup d'etat" and demanded a general election, but most South Koreans were not so disgruntled. The country's fractious four-party system is unwieldy and inefficient, and besides, the opposition parties themselves are largely one-man shows. If nothing else, the realignment will reduce South Korea's confusing roster of same-sounding political parties, and perhaps with it, put an end to internecine bickering in the legislature...