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...Although we now like to remember August 1991 as a comic affair, there was no reason at the time for thinking it would end that way. The military had already drawn blood that year in the Baltics. Many of its leaders were horrified at the collapse of their super power. Vladimir Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB and later to be the moving force in the August coup, had all but accused Gorbachev of high treason in a closed session of parliament. But still, the putsch fizzled. The first ominous lull turned quickly into a baffling loss of momentum. Soon after...
...announced that he was running for Governor in 1997 when he was hit by two scandals: his ex-wife's devastating book detailing the breakup of their marriage, and the disclosure that his brother and campaign manager, Michael, had been having an affair with a teenage babysitter. His cousin John Jr. wrote that Joe and Michael were "poster boys for bad behavior," and Joe's lead in the polls evaporated. He withdrew from the primary and, after Michael was killed in a skiing accident the following New Year's Eve, from politics entirely. He again came close to running...
...provided spectacular evening entertainment, but they are a real threat to the 6,300 people who live in Nicolosi, a town at 2,300 ft. So far, the lava has stopped about 2.5 miles away. Those who live on Etna seem to like the excitement. "We have a love affair with this volcano and this mountain," says Nicolosi Mayor Salvatore Moschetto. "Even in the past, when eruptions have ruined some property, we just start over again...
OTIS THOMAS Pastor who alleged daughter's affair with Condit recants. Sin: Filling tabloids in vain...
...JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, former deputy chairman of Britain's Tory party and best-selling novelist, to four years in prison; for perjury and obstruction of justice; in London. After asking friend Ted Francis to support a fake alibi to counter a newspaper's claim that he'd had an affair with a prostitute, Archer sued the Daily Star for libel and won. Justice Francis Potts called Archer's actions "the most serious offense of perjury I have experienced...