Word: interior
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...vacant seats. Until these legal obstacles are resolved, the Parliament cannot fill the presidency, a powerful new post that was expected to go to party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among the defeated national-list candidates were some of Jaruzelski's most reform- minded allies, including Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak and Politburo member Jozef Czyrek. Their presence in Parliament was deemed crucial to forming a working relationship between the Communists and the opposition...
Whatever the cause, mobs of mostly young Uzbek men went on a rampage against the Meskhetians, hunting them down in their homes and beating them with iron bars and stones. Moscow rushed 9,000 Interior Ministry troops to the scene in an attempt to quell the violence. But fighting erupted in the city of Kokand, 40 miles west of Fergana, where a mob numbering 5,000, some with automatic weapons, attacked government buildings, blocked railroad tracks and set fires...
...walls of her home are often defaced with insulting graffiti. As for La Prensa, it has been shut down by government decree five times in the past decade, once for 451 days. Last September a La Prensa editor was abducted and savagely beaten by people he recognized as Interior Ministry agents. The next month the government circulated a memo threatening sanctions against public enterprises that advertised in the newspaper...
Stefania Follini could be forgiven for losing track of time. On Jan. 13 the 27-year-old Italian interior designer descended into a cave near Carlsbad, N. Mex., where she was to live for more than four months as part of an experiment aimed at examining how the stresses of long-term isolation could affect space $ travel. Pioneer Frontier Explorations, an Italian research foundation, had selected Follini, one of 20 volunteers for the assignment, because she was judged to have inner strength and stamina. For 131 days she dwelled alone in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. Plexiglas module sealed...
...Foley seemed likely to emulate the career of his father, a highly regarded state judge who exerted a powerful influence over his son until his death four years ago at 84. But in 1961 Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson hired Foley as a counsel to the Senate Interior Committee. In 1963 Jackson began urging his protege to run for the House. Foley agonized and held back for so long that in the end he arrived in the state capital to declare his candidacy just hours before the filing deadline. In November 1964, Foley...