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...local economies that in some collective farms there would be no second shift to milk the cows unless the local party boss went door to door rounding up workers. Would a democratically elected mayor on a newly reformed town council be ready to take on the job? Vyacheslav Shostakovsky, rector of Moscow's Higher Party School for Communists, has his doubts. "The party is a hostage of the system it created," he says. "The traditional system of connections is breaking down, but new structures of power do not exist yet. In some places, if the party committee does not intervene...
...group has seen its primary mission as working within the party for change, but Shostakovsky does not rule out the possibility that the Platform might become a separate faction if reform should lag. In some ways the rector of the Higher Party School seems like a Martin Luther who has yet to nail his 95 Theses on the door of the Central Committee. Says Shostakovsky: "The policy of centrism and compromise has been exhausted by now. It was always a risky strategy that courted disaster. It is time to pursue a more radical course in transforming society...
...quickly became the academic vice rector and was our main contact there when we reopened the program in 1984," says Ned D. Strong, a director of LASPAU. "He was [also] the contact with all academic exchange with the embassy...
...only three he owned. Most of his gentle, bearded face had been torn away by an M-16 bullet. Next to him was Father Segundo Montes, director of the University of Central America's human rights project, and a few feet away sprawled the school's rector, Father Ignacio Ellacuria. The priests' cook, Elba Julia Ramos, lay nearby, her brown dress curled around her waist...
Perhaps the most outspoken signer of that defiant declaration was Andrew Craig Mead, the rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Church traditionalists like himself, Mead charged, for too long have been "victims of exclusion, ridicule and financial pressure," and are tired of being treated by church liberals as if they were "brain-dead." Mead and 1,800 like-thinking Episcopalians retaliated earlier this month during a three-day meeting in Fort Worth, where they formed an independent church-within-a-church called the Episcopal Synod of America. It is likely to bedevil the Episcopal Church for years...