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...Certainly our academic reputation attracts the premier athlete," Dartmouth Coach Brian Mason says. "It is a strong athlete, who is certainly committed to academics...
...incumbency and lack of a serious challenge from the left, Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, 71, easily captured the front runner's spot in this year's French presidential campaign. The real contest leading up to the first round of voting on April 24 was between his two conservative opponents, Premier Jacques Chirac and former Premier Raymond Barre, who were running neck and neck in the polls as recently as February. This week the campaign moves into its final phase, during which the release of new voter surveys is forbidden. The biggest news in the flurry of last-minute polls...
...have been refused exit visas, and nonconformists--saw another side of Soviet life and heard a different view of Gorbachev's reforms. Where the students were optimistic, many others saw a dismal future. One woman whose husband spent 15 years in a Siberian labor camp described the Soviet premier as "a man in search of power." And a long-time refusnik said, "Russia just isn't made for democracy. History proves it." When asked what she thought about the current situation, one woman abruptly answered, "I'm scared, scared of what will come after all this is over...
...Chinas are likely to become even more pronounced. One item on the agenda will be the proposed transformation of Hainan Island, now part of Guangdong, into a separate province with the mandate to become a capitalistic special economic zone. Both Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Acting Premier Li Peng called for further development of the coastal industrial cities and special economic zones, even at the risk of letting the rest of the country languish. Said Li: "We must persevere in our policy of permitting a part of the people to become prosperous before the rest...
...with their neighbors. Says Vice Governor Yang: "The old and the new systems coexist." To avoid friction between the provinces, says a Western diplomatic analyst in China, Beijing must "either roll back the reforms or expand the experiment to the rest of the country as quickly as possible." As Premier Li pointed out at the NPC, however, the government is not likely to take either course at this time. While one China presses on, the other must wait its turn...