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...party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such a system would give Chun's Democratic Justice Party a stranglehold on power. That in turn would perpetuate the grip of Chun's strongest supporter, the 600,000-member armed forces, on the political life of the country...
Granted, Fusco's senior season was not, statistically, his strongest--and the selection committee took into account the excellence of his four-year career when making its decision...
...commercials! That has been one of the strongest selling points of movies on video-cassettes. But next week, when the long-awaited home-video version of the blockbuster Top Gun goes on sale, consumers will be surprised to find the movie preceded by a 60-second commercial for Diet Pepsi. The spot, which ( features a jet pilot pouring a soda while flying upside down, will be the first by a major advertiser to appear on a U.S. videocassette...
...strongest reaction to the Gorbachev moves has come in Czechoslovakia. Since Soviet troops marched into that country in 1968 to stamp out the short- lived Prague spring of liberalization, the regime of Gustav Husak, 74, has pursued policies of stolid central planning coupled with rigid political control. Now, encouraged by Gorbachev's words, reformers within the Communist Party appear to have begun a campaign against conservatives. In the process they have encouraged some public support. GORBACHEV can be seen scrawled on a number of Prague walls, and in Pilsen and Bratislava last month small groups of people waved banners declaring...
Flynn's conversion of the mayorship from a disreputable office to an honest one, indeed, is what political consultant Michael Goldman sees as Flynn's strongest contribution to Boston during his first term...