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...dozen posters and banners calling for democracy and declaring support for the economic reforms introduced by Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Seemingly unaware that their actions might instead serve to undermine Deng, they locked arms in a column eight abreast and began marching away from Tiananmen. Then, abruptly, the phalanx of students turned and surged back toward the square...
Alongside Superman these days is a revitalized phalanx of old superfolk -- Batman, Spider- Man, Wonder Wom- an -- and a host of newer, more ambivalent heroes, such as Viet Nam Soldier Ed Marks and the sultry Elektra, a machine- gun-toting assassin. The proliferation of new wonderfigures is impressive: some 250 different comic-book titles, largely in the heroic vein, will be sold in the U.S. this year, up from about 190 in 1985. With a combined circulation of roughly 150 million, the comics are more popular than at any other time since the early '50s. That in turn means heftier...
LAST FALL, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60 and his cadre of politicos at the Democratic National Committee put together a new "Policy Commission" to inject some excitement into their moribund party. The mandate of this fearsome phalanx was to hunt down some New Ideas and forge them in the Great Democratic Furnace. The desired result? A new image for the Democratic Party...
Resistance to the appointment, President Reagan assured a political rally in Miami last week, had come from a "little lynch mob." Some "little lynch mob": half the U.S. Senate, backed by a phalanx of other politicians and legal scholars, all opposing the President's nomination of Archconservative Daniel Manion to a federal judgeship. The final vote of the Senators was 49 to 49. The roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader...
...Brothers Mozart in a downtown Stockholm cinema and had decided to take a walk afterward. For the slight, hawk-nosed Swedish politician with a ready smile, it had always been a matter of pride that he sometimes permitted himself to wander freely about the capital, unencumbered by the phalanx of bodyguards that protect other European heads of government. As the Palmes walked along Sveavagen, Stockholm's well-lighted main thoroughfare, a dark- haired man wearing a blue ski jacket walked briskly up to the couple, pulled out a handgun and fired two shots at close range. A bullet struck...