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...popular these days. (The Untouchables was the only gangster blockbuster of the '80s.) Nor is it that the Italian underworld taps a nerve in today's body politic. Drug lords, often black or Hispanic, are the civic scourge of the moment, and they get their movie due only in Abel Ferrara's rancid, megaviolent King of New York, in which a white man (Christopher Walken) leads a rainbow coalition of pushers. Whatever charm the Mafia boss still possesses is not contemporary but nostalgic. He is remembered or imagined as the dark padrone, courtly and caring, a big tipper...
...least not yet. Gorbachev, it turned out, is still beset by doubts over how to dismantle the centralized economy, and how quickly. Two weeks ago, he seemed determined to present a single economic program to the nation, combining elements from both the Ryzhkov and Shatalin programs. Gorbachev asked Abel Aganbegyan, one of the early architects of his perestroika policy, to draft the joint package. Last week the economist delivered his report to the Supreme Soviet. According to Aganbegyan, it had proved impossible "to make a single program out of the two." The compromise plan that he presented is drawn primarily...
Gorbachev on Friday presented the compromise plan, written by Shatalin and another leading Soviet economist, Abel Aganbegyan. It contains many elements of Shatalin's radical 500-day plan but would move at a slower pace and not disturb the central government's power to levy taxes...
...ranks with Ryzhkov and has even warned against a destabilizing shakeup of the central government. Gorbachev has suggested a compromise: an economic package following the Shatalin group guidelines, with amendments taken from the Ryzhkov proposals. The unified program, which will be prepared by a third group, led by economist Abel Aganbegyan, will be submitted for debate to the republican and national parliaments. The Russians, for their part, have made clear that they want only the Shatalin plan and not the mixed version, which Yeltsin said was like mating "a hedgehog and a snake...
Doctors are particularly struck by the rise in melanoma cases. "When I went into practice 25 years ago," says Dr. Henriette Abel, "if I saw one melanoma a year, it was a big deal." This year, however, "there was a period when I saw six in six weeks." Her brother Dr. Robert Abel, with whom she shares a dermatology practice in Elizabeth, N.J., now diagnoses an average of one melanoma case a month...