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...Soviet army occupied his country in 1940, he became one of its new rulers. Elevated to the Politburo in 1966, Pelshe headed the Party Control Committee, which oversees the discipline of party members. His death reduces membership in the Politburo, which has numbered as many as 16, to a scant eleven, prompting speculation that Party Chief Yuri Andropov may soon make appointments...
Changing tactics abruptly is nothing new for the A.N.C. Founded in 1912 by a group of urban blacks to "defend Africans against repression," the organization started off seeking change through reform rather than revolution. After scant progress, the A.N.C. several years later began encouraging strikes and boycotts by black workers. It also organized demonstrations against discriminatory laws, particularly the requirement that blacks carry passes. During one such protest at Sharpeville near Johannesburg in 1960, police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding more than 100. The A.N.C. and the rival Pan Africanist Congress (P.A.C.), which organized the protest...
...York City last week, the house applauded enthusiastically as the gavel went down on Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Two Women. Reason: a price of $1.2 million, the most money paid for a work by a living artist. (The previous record for a De Kooning was a scant $242,000.) "The art market looks alive and well and living in New York," said Art Dealer Allan Stone, who bid on the work for an anonymous collector. The artist, who is alive and well and living on Long Island, got no share of the spoils. He sold the painting...
...biker gang on Page One and relegate the funeral of a civic leader to the death page . . . The readers don't like to see the actions of a few protesters being given front-page play. Too often they feel the opinions of the majority are given scant attention...
...President has sought to reassure the public by pursuing nuclear arms control with the Soviet Union, so far with scant success. Reagan's chief negotiator in the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), or Euromissile, talks, Paul Nitze, last week gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a nonprogress report. Despite Reagan's proposal for an "interim solution" in INF, Nitze held out little hope for a negotiated settlement before new U.S. missiles are scheduled for installation in Western Europe later this year. Edward Rowny was equally grim in his report to the committee on Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START...