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When a draft of the resolution first began to circulate last month, Marcos called a late-night caucus at which he told party leaders that he was seriously considering calling snap presidential elections this year, well before his current six-year term ends in May 1987. He also spoke of dissolving the national assembly and seeking a totally fresh mandate. Said one party member who attended the meeting: "I've never seen the President panicked until...
...sure the Chinese public got the message, the sentencing hearing was broadcast on national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party member. Yin got a six-year prison term for speculation and was stripped of his party membership. Said a Western diplomat: "Clearly a message was being sent." The general thrust: that government officials and ordinary Chinese citizens may finally get equal justice. Noted an elderly Communist intellectual: "At least our leaders seem to recognize that...
...instituted a painful austerity program that devalued the peso, sharply curtailed imports and cut government spending, including costly subsidies on basic goods and services. In an effort to stimulate future growth, he sold off some state-owned enterprises and invited foreign investment. Now, halfway through De la Madrid's six-year term, another precipitous drop in the price of oil, which is expected to cost Mexico $6 billion in revenues, and $4 billion in losses caused by last September's catastrophic earthquake have pushed Mexico back to the brink...
Watson has reached the six-year limit of his appointment as a teaching assistant, a position for instructors who are not current graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Anxious to shore up sagging recruiting numbers, the U.S. Army says it will offer prospects a 15-month enlistment option, instead of the usual two- to six-year hitch they're currently asked to sign. But will the shorter stint really solve the Army's recruiting woes? For one thing, those 15 months come only after the recruit has completed basic and advanced individual training, which can take another three to six months depending on the job a recruit is headed for. Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, argues the Army should make the commitment 15 months total...