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...Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, candidate of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, left all rivals for the country's presidency far behind by polling an outright majority, 54% of the estimated 1 million ballots cast. Cristiani's victory, however, was muted by a voter turnout of only about 50%. The high rate of abstentions translated in part to support for the boycotting Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist guerrilla force that has battled for power for the past nine years...
...minority groups self-segregating? Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. Albert Hsia, in his March 9 editorial, criticized the Asian American Association (AAA) and other minority organizations for what he believed was their tendency toward self-segregation. But in backing up his opinion with outright falsehoods and blanket statements, he overstepped his bounds and demonstrated an ignorance of what minority groups strive to do and actually...
...fights a duel or settles scores in some form or other, by military force, for example. But Ligachev is my opponent. We simply have different opinions, different points of view on certain questions of tactics. Well, of course, I think he is more conservative, if not to say outright conservative, to put it simply. That is why I think this complicates the process of perestroika. There are, however, some forces behind him. They cannot be defined; they are not organized; you can't identify them as Ivanov or Petrov, but they exist. Not to the extent of representing an opposition...
...Prime Minister stressed, and PASOK needed 5 billion drachmas ($33 million). Thereupon, says Koskotas, Papandreou bluntly described a much expanded plan for kicking back interest payments. Koskotas, he directed, should work out the details with Deputy Prime Minister Koutsogiorgas. Says Koskotas, sounding surprisingly disingenuous: "I realized it was outright blackmail." Until then he had rationalized that the stolen interest payments to PASOK were simply the political cost of doing business in Greece...
MAYBE I am just fooling myself thinking there is romance at all at Harvard. In the course of my extensive interviews, at least 10 people outright laughed in my face when I asked where on campus they searched for love. Come to think of it, some of it may have laughed in my face before I asked them anything...