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...Robert Beckel, circulated a paper that argues for a return to the previous rules. In a thinly veiled reference to Jackson, the report says the new system "rewards those candidates who have goals other than the nomination." D.N.C. chief Ron Brown has said he does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting the new rules he risks appearing to be a tool for Jackson. One possible solution: keep the new procedures but move major primaries, like California's, to earlier dates to narrow the field of competitors by March...
...guerrillas sound determined to fight unless a newly elected government proves unexpectedly willing to reopen negotiations. Warns Cirilo: "We have a genuine desire for peace. But that should not be mistaken for weakness." Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees. "If the military says no to our plan, then that indicates their intention of defeating us militarily," he says. "That would oblige us to respond, and the product would be a deepening of the war." Roberto, a veteran E.R.P. combatant is more direct: "If the elections are held...
Chair Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) accused the White House of leaking information from the FBI report on Tower and threatened to reopen the hearings on the nomination and subpoena anonymous witnesses quoted in the agency review...
...production, which will reopen April 7 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, Roscoe Lee Browne does an impressive star turn as the "conjure man" Bynum. But that is not the star role, and his vocal legerdemain only distracts from the inadequate James Craven as the play's emblem of unjust suffering, Herald Loomis. The visionary fit at the close of the first act and the self- mutilation at the finale, which terrified Broadway audiences, brought titters in San Francisco...
...measure, which the council passed last week in a slightly different form, came up again this week when Councillor Walter J. Sullivan moved to reopen the discussion. Although the measure's sponsor, Councillor Alice K. Wolf said it was not specifically directed at a particular project, but the zoning change would have halted the new building at the Athenaeum Group's One Kendall Square project...