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...while the governor and his predecessor quibble about who has been tougher on crime or who has preserved lower tax rates, the lieutenant governor will get the chance to present his recently developed platform which calls for tax increases to provide funds for local...
...spiritual and moral transformation, promising "absolute respect for human rights." He has urged all priests who fled into exile during the previous regime to return without fear of reprisal, and permitted university students to hold a raucous and frequently outrageous annual protest parade that had been banned by his predecessor...
Humphreys said he expects the more moderate stand of the Chronicle--which originally started in 1977--to attract greater support than its radical predecessor. The group is planning another issue for May and hopes to keep the publication going throughout next year...
Brezhnev's offer was not the first of its kind, but it was the most direct to date. Said he: "We have never considered normal the state of hostility and estrangement between our countries." Downplaying the doctrinal conflict that caused his predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, to withdraw all Soviet advisers from China in 1960, Brezhnev offered to renew negotiations on the border disputes that provoked major skirmishes along the Ussuri River frontier in 1969. The Soviets have important reasons to seek a reduction in tensions with China. Faced with domestic economic strains and a dangerous hemorrhaging of resources in Poland...
...departmental prerogatives, giving students more of a voice in tenure and tutorial decisions. It could have put students in control of funds that the dean of students now doles out. And it could have stripped centralized student government of the trivial and ultimately unsuccessful social activities that were its predecessor's only sphere of influence and that precluded the assembly from meriting a reputation as a serious deliberative body...