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...elections will not usher in a ready-formed New South Africa. Even as most South Africans delight in the prospect of free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
Gergen's arrival will bring turmoil in that key indicator of the White House pecking order: office assignments. "Now it really gets ugly," a staff member predicted. The joke was that the big tent going up on the South Lawn for the President's 25th Georgetown class reunion last week was actually a temporary shelter for homeless senior staff. On Saturday, chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty decreed that Gergen will move into the office of former communications director George Stephanopoulos, where the very fashionable shade of gray paint has barely had time to dry. Stephanopoulos, now a senior policy...
Still, two tutors have already resigned since the turmoil began. Cynthia Palmer, assistant senior tutor in charge of fellowships, and Austin C. Lin, a nonresident tutor in computer science, both said they left in part because of the alleged impropriety and a feeling that Liem was stifling their opinions...
...Eight tutors in Dunster House charge that a house official influenced House Master Karel F. Liem in the hiring of the official's brother, girlfriend and longtime friend as resident tutors. "The official the hired tutors, and Liem all deny any impropriety. Two tutors resign during the turmoil. Dean of the College Fred Jewett '57 eventually leaves any investigation of the matter to Liem...
...10th year on the job. He is currently being treated for a serious illness, and Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy temporarily assumed his duties late last month. There is no timetable for Johnson's return, and some officers wonder if the chief will come back to a department in turmoil...