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Medvedev told reporters afterward that Mikhail S. Solomentsev, 75, also was retired from the Politburo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorbachev Ousts Top Party Officials | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

...shot came off the last short corner in a series of three. Many Crimson defensive players insisted afterward that three Huskies players were off sides at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stopped | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...Afterward Gilbert nearly doubled in force, making it, like Camille in 1969, a rare Category 5 hurricane, as it smashed into the Yucatan at dawn on Wednesday. In the flashy resort city of Cancun, authorities evacuated several thousand people, mostly vacationers. But the poor had no place to go. Winds leveled their often flimsy dwellings, and flood tides washed them away. Some 30,000 were left homeless in Yucatan state and about 10,000 more in Campeche on the peninsula's west coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was No Breeze | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...just cannot read that stuff." Other complaints pour forth: "This manuscript is steeped in the nice-guy side . . . Where's the anger . . . And where's the hubris, by the way?" The answer, of course, is that they are all here, if not conveyed by Roth directly then underlined afterward by his fictional counterpart. Despite its sincere attempt to set the record straight, The Facts inevitably shades into fiction. Roth is worth reading not for what happened to him but for what he made of it. And this odd, unexpected book is one of his happier creations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Surprising Mid-Life Striptease | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...just seven seconds. Reason: it had apparently not occurred to either the cosmonauts or the ground controllers to reprogram the computer for the spacecraft's new position. Lyakhov responded by pressing a manual button to restart the engine, but the computer again cut off the rocket. Admitted the cosmonaut afterward: "I am not excusing myself. There was fault there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Close Call over Kazakhstan | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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