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...party may not have gone far enough -- for its own sake or for the sake of most Hungarians. "This is just a new label on an old bottle," complains Gyorgy Ruttner, an opposition leader who heads the Social Democratic Party. Aware that the bottle's contents might seem familiar and sour, the more radical reformers among the Communists wanted an even sharper break with the past, including expulsion of Old Guard hard-liners. In the end, moderates led by Rezso Nyers, 66, who was elected party president, stitched together a compromise that held the party together but may jeopardize...
...moment's hesitation, others agonized over it. "We talked about it way into the night for days on end," said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying for the sake of our relatives or the children or for reasons of security. Then we heard on a West German radio station that the people in the embassy in Prague were being taken to the West. It was Saturday night. We stayed up talking again, and by early morning we were packing...
...time that we reassessed our priorities and put the lure of creature comforts into proper perspective. Depriving ourselves of life's little luxuries will take effort. But what are the alternatives? To paraphrase former Sen. Edmund M. Muskie, do we really want to sacrifice posterity for the sake of prosperity...
Even producers and directors who grasped her position -- that Palestinians have homeland rights, which Israel must accommodate -- often passed her by for the sake of convenience. "It's not surprising that she's perceived by most Jewish people as anti-Jewish," says her ex-husband, director Tony Richardson. "She has created this image for herself, which makes her almost uncastable in a leading role in Hollywood. She's totally unrealistic in her attitude: when she says 'Zionism,' she thinks she isn't talking about Jews. But there isn't a single bit of anti-Semitic blood in Vanessa." Embittered, Redgrave...
...President's plan to crack down on such "casual" drug users, like Gitell's call for more aggresive University Police action against drugs, amounts to a massive assault on the privacy of students, for the sake of controlling a drug which generates little specific gang violence and is, according to some scientific evidence, safer than alcohol. Harvard needs to be a critic and conscientious objector, not an enthusiastic recruit. John Rigsby...