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...hour-long meeting before spring break, President Derek C. Bok and student divestment activists agreed to disagree on the University's investment policy toward South Africa...
...next day, Baker applied some skillful pressure himself. Following an hour-long meeting with De Klerk, the Secretary of State said before reporters: "May I repeat what you told me at the conclusion of our meeting? That 'we are engaged here in South Africa in an irreversible process that we will follow to its logical conclusion.' " Reporters could only guess whether or not De Klerk meant the comment to be repeated...
...another woman, Victoria Sanchez, does just that, catching a bus for the hour-long trip to Lyndon Baines Johnson General, a new brick public hospital that delivers 15,000 babies each year. Inside, its long halls reveal a modern-day baby factory. Low-birth-weight babies, smaller than Cabbage Patch dolls, crowd nurseries designed for big healthy babies. In the intensive-care unit, doctors and nurses handle about a thousand babies annually, twice as many infants as they should, according to the unit's medical director Dr. Joseph Garcia-Prats...
...most acute for television, since Bush is almost impossible to capture in the standard evening-news format. To get around this perplexity, the networks have lately adopted more unconventional approaches to Bush and his White House. Earlier this season, ABC's Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer did an hour-long interview with Bush and his popular wife Barbara on PrimeTime Live. Last week NBC's Tom Brokaw accompanied Bush through a "typical" day for a special titled A Day in the Life of the White House. The show illustrated just how vain is the hope that a President...
...party will be able to fulfill its mission as a political vanguard only if it drastically restructures itself, masters the art of political work in present conditions and succeeds in cooperating with all forces committed to perestroika." No burst of thunderous applause greeted the end of his hour-long speech. After enduring a gauntlet of criticism at a plenum last December, Gorbachev was prepared to play to a tough audience again, with one major difference -- this time, a full transcript of the closed-door sessions was to appear each day in Pravda...