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...campus chapter of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity sent letters this week to all male first-year students, urging them to escape Harvard's depressed social life by joining the underground organization...
Some businesses have left the area, including Underground Camera, Bennetton, Ching Hua restaurant and Sam Goody's, but for the most part, retailers are eager to get into the Harvard Square market. Those already here remain upbeat about the area's future...
...wilting vegetables, the relentless rain of an early autumn only adding to their discomfort. Outside the textile factory where he works, Ivan Shlykov, 47, waited for a bus under a shelter latticed with a hammer and sickle. "They can throw away all these symbols and drive the Communist Party underground," he said, "but what difference does it make...
...prosecutor and others were concerned that some of the last-minute money dealings might be an attempt to bankroll an illegal underground party of anti-reform, communist hard-liners, something like the small but disciplined Bolshevik party that Lenin led to power in the October Revolution of 1917. "We do not have any valid information to that effect yet," Stepankov said. "But I have instructed my investigators to be on special alert for any documents on financial dealings and put them aside for special investigation...
...other republics with strategic nukes have gone still further toward yielding control. Both Ukraine and Belorussia have proclaimed themselves nuclear-free zones, and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev decreed the closing of the underground nuclear testing center at Semipalatinsk, though he has not yet agreed to give up the weapons...