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There is certainly something to be said about creating a forum of cultural appreciation for different ethnic groups. And some of these organizations do just this. Dinners, dances and gatherings held by the various clubs do bring members closer together and do promote an overall appreciation of the culture. This should not be denied. But what Santini seems to be looking for is club that will provide an arena for political movement--political activity similar (maybe less violent) than the Young Lords Organization which started in New York in 1969. This is ridiculous. To place this kind of political pressure...
...year-old conflict. Finding someone to negotiate with could prove difficult. Although Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev has claimed the mantle of Dudayev's successor, Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly says Yandarbiyev's term as Chechen leader could be short-lived. "The conventional wisdom is that there will be a power struggle between various rebel factions," Donnelly says. "Some leaders want to continue the war until they achieve independence. Some want to try to make a deal with Moscow. Some are pro-Russian and want to reunite with Moscow. But if a leader does emerge who is respected by all factions, especially the fighters...
...manuscript's discovery will make prosecution a much surer bet. Initial tests have indicated it was typed on the typewriter next to it; and the FBI had previously determined by examining the manifesto sent to the papers, the Unabomber's missives to various newspapers and a gloating note to one victim that all three emerged from the same machine. In fact, lying next to the treatise in the cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing...
DIED. LARRY LAPRISE, 83, songwriter; in Boise, Idaho. LaPrise was playing ski lodges when he co-concocted the ideal entertainment for hyperactive children and rhythm-impaired adults: The Hokey Pokey (1949), which had a nation putting various extremities in, out and about. Big-band and heavy-metal versions followed--as LaPrise was hokey-pokeyed out of a fortune. Having sold his rights for a song, he became a postal worker...
According to Bracken, HAARC has filed the second motion because the group believes "the judge made various errors in reaching the legal conclusion and that [after] further consideration should issue a preliminary injunction...