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...lingering ghost of the last City Council was put to rest Monday night, as the new council voted to repeal a December ordinance that critics contend could have removed hundreds of apartments from the rent control system...
...members of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which lobbied for the amnesty in December, said that a repeal would leave their problems unresolved. SPOA co-chair John Natale said the Rent Control Board has made no effort to address conflicts with city zoning in the past, and would have no incentive to do so in the future if the amnesty was ended...
Councillor William H. Walsh, the council's most vocal critic of rent control, argued that repeal would almost certainly open the city to further legal action...
...nationally televised address and was well received by foreign governments. But when China finally lifted martial law, which was imposed on parts of its capital eight months ago to crush the pro- democracy movement, the response in Beijing was "Wu suo wei" -- it makes no difference. Despite official repeal of the decree, the government appeared to have ended the crackdown in name only: soldiers who had switched into the uniforms of civilian police were cropping up all over town, and there was no sign that their orders to suppress any hint of new unrest had changed...
...even the Kremlin realizes that Article 6 as now written is out of date. This provision entered the Soviet constitution only in 1977, at the height of what is now denounced as the "era of stagnation." Sakharov and other liberals have made the repeal of Article 6 a litmus test of the leadership's commitment to genuine progress. They have substantial support. The Supreme Soviet voted 198 to 173 last month to debate Article 6; only 28 abstentions kept the measure off the agenda of this week's session of the Congress of People's Deputies. Gorbachev recognizes that...