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Threats of violence were just part of Tokes's troubles. Church officials tried to transfer him to a less volatile parish in southern Rumania. When < Tokes refused, Bishop Laszlo Papp accused the pastor of "violating the laws of both church and state" and obtained a court order for his eviction. But hundreds of supporters formed a human chain around Tokes's building to protect him, thus triggering the crackdown that helped inspire the nationwide demonstrations that toppled Nicolae Ceausescu...
...U.S.S.R. On the other, he knows that resorting to force would probably provoke even greater resistance to Moscow's rule and would certainly spell the end of his liberal reform program as a whole. A crackdown could also revive the cold war and end his plans to transfer resources from the military to the civilian sector...
...Fellow classmate and number-two seed, Johnny Kaye was a three-time top-ranked player in Israel. Farokh Pandole, after twice winning the Indian Junior Nationals, quickly adapted to hard-ball squash last year to climb high on the ladder. And speaking of rapid adjustments, sophomore Mark Baker, a transfer student from England, adjusted to American squash faster than a rolling "O" to secure the number-one seed...
...debt-burdened developing nations cannot be expected to do so without an enormous influx of funds and technology from the North. According to Kenneth Piddington, director of the World Bank's Environment Department, the crucial question is, "Are the rich countries of a mind to organize the transfer of resources in such a way that the Thailands and Indonesias of this world are actually going to benefit materially from the way they have dealt with their environmental agenda?" Arranging such a transfusion is perhaps the central challenge facing all the nations of the world today...
Lawrence Taggart. The top thrift regulator in California in 1983 and 1984, Taggart allowed Keating to transfer $800 million in Lincoln's assets to high- risk investments. A month later he resigned from the government to become head of a Keating-controlled enterprise, TCS Financial Inc. Immediately Keating poured nearly $3 million into the business, wiping out the debt of the financially ailing firm. A friend of then FHLBB head Edwin Gray, who became his bitter enemy, Taggart wrote to Don Regan in 1986, calling Gray a "re- regulator" who was having a "very adverse impact on the ability...