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Adding further excitement to the 1989 race is the presence on the ballot of Proposition 1-2-3, a binding referendum whose chief provision would let rent-control tenants buy their units as condominiums after living there two years or more.

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

In the seven months since Grosz succeeded the long-ruling Janos Kadar as head of Hungary's Communist Party, dozens of independent political associations have begun organizing. Though there is no legal provision for such parties, the reform-minded Grosz regime has not challenged them. Communist regimes have not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Taking the Pluralist Path | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Alarm over the narcotics epidemic has ignited a divisive debate over drug laws and the best way to attack the problem. Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi has called for a drastic reversal of the old law: he wants users punished. "You can't ban the sale of drugs from one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Tentacles of the Octopus | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Under state law, anyone who owns 20 percent or more of the land affected by a zoning change may, by objecting, force the City Council to pass it by a vote of seven to two, rather than the usual six to three. Critics of the University say the provision inevitably...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Is Harvard Just Another Big Landlord? | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

George Bush does not have a deeply held personal agenda. He has few strong ideological or intellectual beliefs at all, other than a basic decency, patriotism and desire for people to be accommodating. A stark example: Bush was torn this fall when Congress debated a federal requirement that there be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Expect: The outlook for the Bush years | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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