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Whatever form it takes, Warsaw's economic program will ultimately depend on the cooperation of Solidarity's 10 million members. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa admitted last week that price increases were necessary but said they should be accompanied by broad economic reforms. Charges one Solidarity official: "Incredible incompetence in management is the problem." Despite the party congress, Poland's problems are clearly far from solved...
Plucknett and Mulhall were caught by routine urine tests administered to 24 randomly selected athletes at the Pacific games. Such tests can pick up traces of steroids consumed within two months of testing. So athletes who depend on the drugs are usually careful to stop using them before that time. Six or seven athletes a year are banned by the federation on drug-related offenses. Though suspensions are supposed to be for life, the national governing bodies in track and field are allowed to appeal for reinstatement after 18 months, and the softhearted federation usually says...
...wife, founder of the Malibu colony, half-baked advocate of Freud, Dewey and Marx, full-time heckler of B.P. as too trusting, too irresponsible, likely to come to a bad end. "I've decided not to depend on Father-for anything," she told Budd as her marriage wound down. "In all these years he has practically nothing to show for the millions he's earned . . . he lives in that dream world of his, with people like . . . the Sidney woman telling him how great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status...
...expect a pair of "Arizona twins" to develop and to hang together any more consistently than have the now-splintered "Minnesota twins," Burger and Blackmun. Broadly speaking, the court now has two liberals, Brennan and Marshall, in a standoff facing two conservatives, Rehnquist and Burger. The decisions thus often depend on how the other so-called fluid five divide on a given case. And that rarely can be foreseen...
...there are many others to consider. The Arena Stage, in Washington, D.C., is one of many small regional theaters throughout the country that depend heavily on government support. When Holpert says professional theater "will not be hurt too much," she is talking about the industry. When Papp speaks of the dissolution of theaters, he is talking about institutions like the Arena Stage...