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RUSSIA Communists Out The pro-Kremlin majority in the Duma stripped the Communist faction and its allies of the chairmanships of eight top Duma committees. In protest, the left-wing oppo-sition gave up control of the three committees they still kept. The parliament has scheduled a vote for April 19 on a draft appeal to have the Communist Party banned altogether...
...Duval duchy began in 1911 when three Mexican Americans were gunned down in San Diego by a gang of Anglos opposed to the town's incorporation under Chicano control. Ethnic conflict reached a high pitch. Alone among the area's "Americans" to champion the Mexicans' po sition was George's father Archie Parr, a small-time rancher. For years thereafter, the Mexicans - who still make up 90% of the population of Duval and surrounding counties - honored Parr as their cacique. Parr saw to it that roads were built, local government jobs were manufactured, and bail money...
...however, a few details that will not wait. The U.S.-Japan mutual security treaty comes up for reconsideration in June; Sato intends to keep it in effect, though the negotiations are likely to be punctuated by student demonstrations. Sato's majority in the Diet rules out serious parliamentary oppo sition, and now that he has secured the return of Okinawa from the U.S., the protests may be muted as well...
Mihajlov's offense was to suggest that Yugoslavia needed a two-party system - and to set about promoting an oppo sition party complete with its own mag azine, Slobodni Glas (The Voice of Freedom). As he told the court in his own defense: "I cannot consider social ist a society in which only 6% or 7% have all the rights and the others none...
...greater popular following or a stronger gift for political intrigue. One possible candidate: suave, wily Mohammed ben Bella, the F.L.N. 's "iron man," who is scheduled to be released from five years of French imprisonment at the ceasefire, along with four other F.L.N. leaders. But for a tran sition period at least, Benkhedda is the man in charge...