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...resumption of fighting comes at an awkward time for the Aquino government. The Philippines is preparing for May 11 congressional elections, the first legislative balloting since Aquino took office last year during the popular revolt that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino has tried to regain the initiative for a truce by making a number of almost desperate attempts to get the Communists back to the bargaining table. The President has offered to conclude regional cease-fires and proclaimed a "full and complete amnesty" to rebels who lay down their arms in the next six months...
...value types saw AIDS as a natural cause and . effect," explains Bob Grant, chairman of the lobbying organization Christian Voice. "People with unsafe and immoral behavior were reaping its results." The AIDS-related death of Terry Dolan, a founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, made it an awkward subject among some New Right activists. But in the wake of recent studies showing that AIDS is spreading to the heterosexual community, the right stopped averting its eyes. Two other developments further energized the right: this month's Supreme Court decision granting victims of communicable diseases the same rights...
...upending the independent counsel will not be easy, for both legal and political reasons. "There's a need for an independent conflict-of-interest investigation in the Executive Branch," says University of Texas Law Professor Harold Bruff. "The courts will recognize that need." The Administration, meanwhile, is in an awkward position. Attorney General Edwin Meese and other Reagan Justice Department officials have publicly opposed the special prosecutor, yet they may find it difficult to support North and Deaver without opening themselves to charges of fostering a cover-up. Says one Justice Department official: "In this political climate...
...movies. In real life, questioning the adolescent social structure usually ends in baffled hurt, not instructive triumph. When Hughes' characters and situations are intensely enough drawn (as in The Breakfast Club), one scarcely notices such manipulation. But Some Kind of Wonderful has not attained its full growth. Thin, gulpy, awkward, it stands before us, artlessly begging sympathy but betraying its creator's worst weakness...
...SIXTH-GRADERS, poised for action, could only wait as the tape recorder ground out the Citystep dance troupe's soundtrack at something like quarter speed. Their smiles remained as their poised-for-dance positions grew awkward. Every pair of eyes in Sanders Theater focused on the leg at the rear of the stage that was pointed straight up--and becoming too heavy for a tiny, grimacing dancer to bear. The kids needed to move, needed music, needed Jazz for Relief...