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...hate bureaucracy with a passion," says the Hollis Hall resident, "I want to make the council a cleaner and slimmer organization...
Given the disparate agendas of all the factions, the prospects for putting together an enduring government within a month are slight. The chances that Ethiopia will then proceed to build a true democracy are slimmer still. The country has no history of democracy, and the forces that now espouse it are only recent converts. While the factions in authority today may prove more progressive and able than the antiquated regime they replaced, peace and democracy remain distant goals. The Kalashnikov is sure to have its place in Ethiopia for some time to come...
BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, debuting May 1, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Oprah Winfrey, a bit slimmer but just as soulful, reprises her starring role as Mattie in a weekly series based on her hit mini-series about women in an inner-city black neighborhood...
...keep alive their shrinking market, tobacco companies have shown marketing genius by creating more than 300 brands that variously boast of being longer, slimmer, cheaper, flavored, microfiltered, pastel colored or even striped. A new R.J. Reynolds brand called Uptown looks typically glitzy with its black- and-gold box and promise of a tasty menthol blend. But the cigarette has provoked a response its maker never anticipated: passionate protest. Last week the tobacco company, which intended to begin test-marketing the cigarette next month in Philadelphia, canceled those plans after community groups and health organizations vehemently criticized the product. The reason...
...resignation of the 44-member Cabinet was not so significant as it was dramatic, since the Cabinet had been a rubber stamp. Its dismissal, however, did serve to rid Krenz of Premier Willi Stoph, a Honecker loyalist. The dissolution of the 21-member Politburo, and its replacement with a slimmer ten-member body, was far more pointed, since that is where the real power lies. Some of its more notorious hard-liners got the ax, including Stoph; Erich Mielke, head of the despised state security apparatus; and Kurt Hager, chief party ideologist. Hans Modrow, 61, the Dresden party leader...