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Also yesterday, the government newspaper Neues Deutschland said the party may scrap its traditional structure of having a Politburo, Central Committee and general secretary to make a "radical end to structural Stalinism." As reform movements sweep through Eastern Europe, the hard-line policies of Stalinism have become a prime target for criticism...
...battle for religious freedom is not yet won. The Supreme Soviet has still not taken up a long-anticipated revision of the repressive religious statute instituted by Stalin in 1929. There is no certainty whether, or when, parliament will scrap the hated law, which subjects all church activities to Communist control and forbids parish education. Nor, given the history of the U.S.S.R., is there certainty that rights proclaimed in speeches and laws will be honored by bureaucrats...
THAT'S right, scrap the entire Social Security program. Even if you believe (as I certainly do) that the U.S. government should provide income security to the elderly and disabled, you could scarcely devise a more unfair and inefficient way to do it than the Social Security system...
...need an income maintenence policy that is more efficient, fair and compassionate. We need to scrap Social Security...
Hall's hip, high-intensity style increased the ratings of the troubled show, but it was too late. Fox had already decided to scrap the program in favor of a new late-night entry, The Wilton North Report. "I was able to do a lot of stuff because the Fox executives weren't watching," says Hall. "No one cared." When Wilton North was a quick failure, Fox asked Hall to return. But by this time his attention was elsewhere, notably in movies: he had just shot Coming to America, the first of a three-picture deal with Paramount. Hall turned...