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...peak that Black fully intends to maintain and possibly elevate. In so doing, she will also be striving toward another, more personal goal. "Now," she says, "I would like to help persuade society that it should not be as difficult as it is for women to succeed at home and at work both...
...that if "Deng's bold experiments" succeed, "Communists everywhere, notably in the Third World, would see an alternative to the failures of Soviet Marxism." Yet you say that "Deng's goal is to lift per capita income to $800 by the year 2000." This is less than 20% of per capita income in the U.S.S.R. today and less than 10% of that in some East European countries. Soviet-style Marxism is a failure only by Western standards. Compared with the mess that China is in after 35 years under Deng and his associates, the Soviet Union is Nirvana. Thomas...
...dozen firings and resignations. Worst of all, two former state Democratic officials have been convicted of attempted extortion and three others have been indicted for taking bribes, including Anaya's secretary for health and environment, Joseph Johnson, who was charged last week. Although state law forbids a Governor to succeed himself, Anaya would probably not run for re-election if he could: a poll of voters taken last year indicated that his approval rating was an abysmal...
...somber ceremony marked a kind of coming-of-age for a country long untouched by political violence. The man who was tapped to launch the new era in Sweden is Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, the mild-mannered politician elected by Parliament three days earlier to succeed Palme. After the new Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch...
...would succeed A.W. Clausen, the former BankAmerica chairman, as president of the World Bank when his five-year term expired on June 30? For months, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker was touted for the job, as was Labor Secretary William Brock. Last week the guessing game finally ended as the Reagan Administration named Barber Conable, 63, a highly regarded former Republican Congressman from New York, as its candidate to head the international development institution...