Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Changes that Gorbachev has proposed would replace the general secretary--his present party title--with a party chair and first secretary. The chair, assisted by a deputy chair, would set overall party direction while the secretary would manage the party's daily affairs...
...addition, the party's top body, the Politburo, would be renamed and expanded, thus diluting the power of each present Politburo member. The Politburo, now made up of 12 voting and seven non-voting members, would be renamed the Presidium, with about 30 members...
...enthusiasm, to accept the idea of the West German army remaining in NATO. Never mind what agreements were signed as a result of the Two-plus-Four talks back in the early 1990s. Germany will do what it thinks necessary to protect itself against the clear and present dangers...
Ruth Rendell has enough talent for two people, so she also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine. They usually concern a crime committed long ago; this time, Gallowglass (Harmony; 272 pages; $19.95) shifts from past to present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results...
...future may not be as bleak as the present. Thomas Ryder, president of American Express Publishing, predicts that the consumer-magazine industry will emerge from its slump during the next 18 months "shaken, but stronger for it." In the meantime, certain less glamorous market niches are flourishing: witness the success of highly targeted publications like Model Railroader and Golf Illustrated. Service and life-style magazines, meanwhile, , are attracting some keenly interested, well-financed investors. American Express recently acquired D (for Dallas) and Atlanta as part of a plan to expand into 20 city markets. And on June 1 Time...