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...political front, U.S. optimism also seems misplaced. Some experts are worried that the mujahedin leader who has received the lion's share of U.S. support, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is a fanatic Muslim who might turn out to be Afghanistan's version of the Ayatullah Khomeini. Others wonder whether the mujahedin coalition, linked by hatred of the Najibullah regime, could stay together long enough to form an effective government...
...vote that may set the stage for a battle with the House and the Dukakis administration over how much the cash-short state can afford, the Senate passed by voice vote the supplemental budget bill. The bill slashes $267 million from the House's $338 million version, which was already less than the figure proposed by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...Minister clung to his job until a weekend news story reported that Ihei Aoki, his right-hand man, had received a 50 million-yen ($347,222) loan from the Recruit Co. two years ago that apparently found its way into the Takeshita campaign chest. The disclosure flatly contradicted the version of events that Takeshita had laid out before the Japanese Diet in early April. Two days after the Aoki story broke, Takeshita came to the conclusion that he could not keep his job; public disapproval was so strong that his government's popularity rating had plummeted to a mortifying...
Holy Writ Dept: Religious fundamentalism is apparently not yet dead at Harvard. A resident tutor received an overdue notice for a copy of the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Holy Bible penned by St. Jerome. In the space marked "author" was written...
...platform calls for "good government" and backs the current version of the rent control law. Its members on the Council have also opposed many large commercial developments...