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...once a rubber-stamp popular front, to stand in local elections against his ruling League of Yugoslav Communists Party. Though still under the League's wing, the Alliance will force League candidates to "openly debate issues," make it more difficult for the old-liners to hide in the woodwork of the bureaucracy. Tito's move has led some Belgrade wags to suggest that Yugoslavia is now a one-and-a-half party state...
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...ambassador was hauled from his auto by police and grilled for two hours. In other Arab capitals, Boumedienne started recruiting teachers to replace the 2,000 pro-Nasser Egyptian instructors in Algerian schools. "At least," said one impressed diplomat, "he's digging the cockroaches out of the woodwork...
...Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed by the bandit's aide-de-camp (Leo McKern), who keeps tumbling upon them via doors and portholes and through the woodwork...
...along this side of the river between the Eliot and Arsenal bridges. The not unpleasant little stand of scrub red birch that used to be there, below the cemetery, will soon be replaced by pavement and another stream of the ubiquitous cars that seem to come out of the woodwork nowadays. Roger A. C. Williams...