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...loyalist. The dissolution of the 21-member Politburo, and its replacement with a slimmer ten-member body, was far more pointed, since that is where the real power lies. Some of its more notorious hard-liners got the ax, including Stoph; Erich Mielke, head of the despised state security apparatus; and Kurt Hager, chief party ideologist. Hans Modrow, 61, the Dresden party leader, was named to the Politburo and will be Premier in the new government. He has been likened alternately to Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the reformist thorn in the Soviet President's side. Some conservatives, however, remain...
...glow of victory, narcotics officers congratulated one another on finally putting a dent in the drug-smuggling apparatus. But in recent weeks the vastly increased tonnage of captured cocaine has been generating some anxious rethinking about the scale of America's coke problem. Reason: since cocaine is essentially a commodity, its price follows the same basic rules of supply and demand that apply to wheat, soybeans and pork bellies. When supply is abundant, prices fall; when there is scarcity, prices rise. Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures in the past few months, along with the Colombian government's crackdown...
...years at the party academy in Moscow, then returned home to rise quickly through the party ranks. He has been a member of the party's Central Committee since 1973. A decade later, he joined the Politburo, gradually assuming responsibility for both youth affairs and the country's security apparatus...
...rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented magnesium flash powder had to be poured into an open pan and then ignited with a flaming bang. "Twice I set fire to the house with my apparatus," Riis later recorded calmly, "and once to myself...
...that granted the Communists and their allies 65% of the seats in the Sejm and allotted 35% to the opposition; a new 100-member Senate, with veto power over all legislation, was to be chosen in open elections; a powerful presidency, with control over the armed forces and security apparatus, would be filled by the Communist-controlled Parliament. Solidarity allowed the party and its allies a guaranteed majority on condition that the next legislative elections, to be held in four years, are fully competitive and that the President is popularly elected by 1995. The union also extracted a number...