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...Some observers suspect that the new campaign against crime is part of a broader movement to restore law-and-order that also includes the recent crackdown on China's tiny dissident movement. Last week Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, talking to a delegation from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, defended the stiff 15-year sentence meted out six weeks ago to Human Rights Activist Wei Jingsheng on the ground that "we needed to make an example of him." At the same time, the centerpiece of the human rights movement, Peking's famed "democracy wall," came under official attack. Meeting in Peking...
Gueiler is trying a more workable approach. Last week she announced a package of tough new policies. Among them: a stiff hike in the price of gasoline and other fuels and a 25% peso devaluation. But her tough new plan provoked a warning from the heads of the powerful Central Labor Federation, which had sponsored a general strike that helped propel Natusch from office. Workers, declared Federation Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo, "will not accept economic measures that affect their income." If Gueiler's new proposals are carried out, he threatened, his followers were ready to "struggle in the streets...
...stiff rise from the current official maximum of $23.50 per bbl. now seems increasingly likely when the cartel meets in Caracas on Dec. 17. So too do market-tightening cutbacks by a number of cartel members eager to keep oil prices high even as the world economy slows...
Harvard's Advanced Standing program now grants sophomore standing to students who take three Advanced Placement exams and achieve a score of 3 or above on each. Mack I. Davis, director of Advanced Standing, recently reviewed the requirements, concluded they weren't stiff enough and recommended the Faculty raise the number of exams required to four and the scores...
...next morning, stiff and parched from a night in Kamik's igloo, the two men braced the gelid winds and raging storm, and headed in the direction of Hooka...