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...being held in Tanzanian prisons under the country's Preventive Detention Act. Mozambique's President Samora Machel has publicly berated and fired corrupt government officials, as has Zambia's Kaunda. In Zimbabwe, the four-year-old government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe has ordered stiff new penalties for corruption, including fines of $5,000 and five years' imprisonment...
...windy presenter said that the President, like the hickory cane, was unbending, un yielding and several other ways of saying "stiff." Coolidge, the soul of taciturnity, took the cane, sighted down the shaft, said "Ash," and sat down.) Lyle gives the impression that renovating the house made his nose feel like a paymaster's window. So far, $25,000 has been eaten by the structure. And in thinning his purse, the innkeeper says he has learned something about the Yankee tradesman's sense of priorities. If, for ex ample, the Wolfs' prehistoric heating sys tem goes blooey...
...University's stance on this matter follows a pattern of thoughtlessness, a more general problem that tradition-locked Harvard has had in responding to diverse groups as they merge with the community. The same stiff and narrow vision characterized College reaction to minority groups' campaign last year to list their events in the official freshman week calendar, or, earlier, to form a Third World Center; Harvard displays reluctance to bend from the immediate social values with which it is most familiar--an "integrated" class, a stable social setup, or, in this case, the "traditional" formula for scheduling of Commencement...
...expensive and risky. Evans calls the British press "half-free" in comparison with U.S. papers. It is easy to incur heavy penalties in England for printing information that the government considers secret; running stories that could prejudice court trials might land an editor in jail. Still, in spite of stiff official resistance, the Sunday Times managed to publish uncensored excerpts from the diaries of Richard Crossman, a former Cabinet minister. The paper also exposed the important position that Kim Philby had held in British intelligence before he defected to Moscow. Evans chanced contempt of court by publicizing the plight...
Facing up to the debt crisis will be the sternest test for Lusinchi, a pediatrician who has spent 40 years working for Action Democratica, chiefly as a quiet but effective grass-roots organizer. Though he is a populist by inclination, he will confront the need to administer a stiff dose of austerity after taking office next February...