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Many participants welcomed the new absence of political tension. Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University said, "I've coached several times against the Soviets and never used the good-guy-vs.-bad-g uy approach. These kids of mine have nothing to do with politics. They get up to play the Soviets because they're good on a basketball floor, not because of some political evil. And that's how it should be." But when his squad met the Soviets in a sold-out first-round game at the Seattle Coliseum, the favored Americans fell, 92-85. Some fans...
...transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations, "is the most severe one-bullet strategy to beat inflation attempted anywhere in the world...
...response, reform-minded young officers have begun to push for change. Unlike the top brass, this new generation of military men takes a more independent approach to the army's troubles than the one dictated by orthodox communism. They have proposed a radical agenda that includes abolishing the draft, turning the conscript force into an all-volunteer army, expelling party cells from military units and permitting the formation of territorial reserve units as a way to check the flow of soldiers into unofficial regional corps...
Brennan, who sprinkled his off-bench conversations with profanity and wrote crisply clear opinions, had an unusually collegial approach to finding the often elusive fifth vote needed to support his views. He would sometimes dispatch his law clerks to find out from their fellows what points bothered other Justices about his position. Then, in early drafts, he would deftly tailor his arguments to overcome their objections. His sharply honed writing often carried...
Every night up to 3,000 angry residents of Chateauguay, Quebec, gathered outside the barricade that Mohawk Indians raised across the approach to the Mercier Bridge, a major artery into Montreal. Rowdies grappled with police and burned effigies of Mohawks hanging from a lamppost. Since a policeman was killed two weeks ago during an assault on another Mohawk blockage at Oka, 19 miles to the west, that town and Chateauguay have become scenes of an edgy standoff over the volatile issue of Indian land rights. The Indians have been protesting plans to expand a golf course into a forest that...