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Blessed with incumbency and lack of a serious challenge from the left, Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, 71, easily captured the front runner's spot in this year's French presidential campaign. The real contest leading up to the first round of voting on April 24 was between his two conservative opponents, Premier Jacques Chirac and former Premier Raymond Barre, who were running neck and neck in the polls as recently as February. This week the campaign moves into its final phase, during which the release of new voter surveys is forbidden. The biggest news in the flurry of last-minute...
...Dalai Lama spends much of his time reflecting on how Tibetan Buddhism can teach, and learn from, other disciplines. He believes, for example, that Buddhism can show Marxism how to develop a genuine socialist ideal "not through force, but through reason, through a very gentle training of the mind, through the development of altruism." He sees many points of contact between his faith and "psychology, cosmology, neurobiology, the social sciences and physics. There are many things we Buddhists should learn from the latest scientific findings. And scientists can learn from Buddhist explanations. We must conduct research, and then accept...
...Office of Personnel Management and other agencies had contended that not utilizing the material might impede their investigations of the "suitability, reliability and loyalty" of applicants for sensitive federal jobs. Following abandonment of the appeal, Attorney Leonard Boudin, who represented the Socialist Workers, called the case a "laboratory dissection of the Government's attempt to destroy a political party...
...that also confront Gorbachev at home. Nonetheless, while he constantly referred to his principles of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness), Gorbachev refrained from suggesting that Yugoslavs adopt Soviet policies. A communique issued at the visit's end affirmed the right of the two nations to pursue "different paths of socialist development...
...Tikhon Khrennikov, 74, since 1948 the iron chancellor of the state Composers Union. The tough-minded, politically agile Stalinist, who was a point man for the infamous Resolution of 1948 that ripped Shostakovich and Prokofiev for modernism, Khrennikov brought a generation of composers to heel in the name of socialist realism...