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Raisa Gorbachev has not been seen in public since Aug. 22, when, looking haggard and pale, she walked down the steps of the plane that carried her and her family back to Moscow after 72 hours of house arrest in the Crimea. But last week the world did get a chance to read what the 59-year-old wife of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had to say about her ordeal and, in a newly released memoir, about her earlier foreboding of what lay ahead...
...latest flare-up of black-Jewish tensions was sparked on the hot, muggy evening of Aug. 19, when a station wagon driven by a Hasidic Jew ran a red light, collided with another car, then jumped the curb and struck two black children. Gavin Cato, 7, was killed, and his cousin Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured. Crown Heights blacks became enraged that the driver, Yosef Lifsh, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect, was not arrested and charged with Cato's death. Their anger was compounded by the false rumor that Lifsh was drunk and by the fact...
...Within an hour of the presidential order there was no one to talk to anymore," said Vladimir Gubarev, an editor at Pravda, which, like all other party newspapers, was suspended on Aug. 23 and failed to appear for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. "There is no one in the Central Committee Secretariat. No one in the Politburo. They all fled like mice...
...extent of the corruption may have been what drove the party's top financial officer, Nikolai Kruchina, to leap to his death on Aug. 26 from a balcony on the seventh floor of -- appropriately -- a luxury Moscow apartment building set aside for top party officials. As the Central Committee's general affairs officer, Kruchina had been in charge of the party's billions and would have known of irregularities, if not actually been involved in them. Valentin Stepankov, chief prosecutor of the Russian Federation, said officials interviewed Kruchina about party financial affairs shortly before his death. "He seemed to have...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on AUG. 27-28 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" and "same amount" answers omitted...