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...final communiqué and tackling procedural matters that would affect the future shape of the movement. Here, at least, the moderates put up a stiff fight, proposing hundreds of amendments to Cuban draft declarations in an effort to tone down the pro-Soviet thrust. Another attempt to curb Castro's power was a proposal to expand the membership of the Coordinating Bureau, which acts on behalf of the movement between triennial summit meetings. By gaining some of the additional seats, moderates hoped to check Cuban militancy over the next three years, when Castro will serve a chairman...
Most specialists still feel that the real answer to shedding pounds is changing lifestyles. Says Dr. Victor Vertes, director of the weight loss clinic at Cleveland's Mt. Sinai Hospital: "These drugs are not going to burn calories. You've got to curb your caloric intake. And for long-term weight control, they're completely useless. You can't take them for the rest of your life...
Shagari's pragmatism could spell success for Nigeria's reborn democracy, if he can curb the excesses of his party followers, who finished strongly in races for the federal senate and state assemblies. But it might also spell disaster if he permits the country to fall back into the fractiousness of the past. Says a Western diplomat in Lagos: "A lot of people have their fingers crossed on this...
Obasanjo, a devout Baptist who became the military regime's leader in 1976, has had only mixed success in persuading Nigerians to curb their big spending. The need is urgent because the country's appetite for grandiose public projects, as well as for needed social welfare programs, far outstrips its oil reserves. But Obasanjo has had no trouble at all in selling his people on a return to democracy; Nigerians, as one Lagos official says bluntly, are "tired of dictatorship...
Thach suggested that the U.S. might be more amenable to recognition now that Hanoi is moving to curb the refugee flow...