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Faced with the latest plenum setback, Sergeyev vowed to oppose what Gorbachev is doing to the party "by every possible means -- within the law." He admitted that there would be "tough times" ahead for hard-liners. Gorbachev declared last week that the party would only be "strengthened" if those who opposed his new program resigned, but Sergeyev has his own ideas. "The social democrats and liberals -- and that includes Gorbachev -- should get out," says Sergeyev. "Let them create their own new party. True communists have no reason to leave...
...Pentagon's new image of competence has suffered a bit of a setback. Officials at Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., have discovered that the $1.7 billion SEAWOLF attack submarine being built there is too large for the Thames River. To move the vessel, the Navy will have to dredge a $12 million, eight- mile channel. Some residents contend that the removal of 2.7 million cu. yds. of contaminated sludge will harm the fishing industry, and have called for a full environmental-impact study before the digging begins...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation $26.5 million and turn over to the agency a $23 million executive-indemnity fund established by Silverado before it was seized by the government three years ago. For Neil Bush, 36, an outside director of Silverado from 1985 to 1988, the development marks the latest setback in his ill-starred business career. Last April, in a separate action, the Office of Thrift Supervision formally reprimanded him for engaging in "unsafe" and "unsound" practices involving conflicts of interest...
...other major setback for the CCR came later in the spring, after what has come to be an annual rite--a sit-in Clark's office. Thirteen days after students occupied the Dean's office on April 10, Clark sent a stern letter to all students and faculty members warning that such "future disruptions" would lead to suspensions or even expulsions...
...Setback...