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Incumbent Saundra Graham seemed likely to stave off the challenge of fellow liberal Alice Wolf; a few observers said there was an outside possibility that both Wolf and Graham could win by ousting Vellucci, but low vote totals for Wolf make that prospect unlikely...
Nonetheless, most Detroiters remain confident that Young, who is preparing to run for a third four-year term this fall, will work his financial magic once again. Indeed, Young has hired Felix Rohatyn, the fiscal expert who helped New York escape from bankruptcy, to draft a blueprint to stave off financial disaster. The mayor is also busy trying to attract fresh industries to the city, especially firms specializing in electronics and plastics. Without Young, said Auto Tycoon Henry Ford II, "this city would be dead." His Honor is working hard to keep the patient alive, if just barely...
...supported the cause of striking Polish workers, although his early public calls for moderation led some militants to suspect him of siding with the government. He ultimately played a crucial mediating role, meeting with both Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa and Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, and thereby helped stave off a possibly catastrophic confrontation. Said Walesa, who continually looked to Wyszynski for inspiration and advice: "The Cardinal's teachings brought us to the point we all dreamed about." Last week millions of Poles could say the same thing about a man who kept alive the dream of freedom...
Cocaine, one of the most popular and most expensive illicit drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
...first use of force by police since Poland's labor troubles began last July-and the first serious breakdown in the tenuous recent truce between the government and Solidarity. The nation's workers reacted angrily. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders, who had been trying to stave off strikes and work stoppages elsewhere, rushed to Bydgoszcz to comfort the injured and demand retribution against the police. Addressing an overflow meeting of outraged unionists, Walesa alternately stirred his listeners with attacks on the Communist apparatus and urged them not to react too rashly. "Those bandits and sadists from...