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...party's rightward slide was signaled three weeks ago when Russian Communists chose Ivan Polozkov, the hard-line party boss of the southern Krasnodar region, as their standard bearer. The right-wing political coup appeared to have caught Russian party reformers by surprise. They had clearly underestimated the depth of resentment in local party organizations with everything from political change in Eastern Europe to schemes for converting military assembly lines to the production of consumer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union It's Lonely Up There | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...details of her life and death emerged, Adkins became a symbol of all those patients who confront a horrible disease and vow to maintain some dignity in death. And as Kevorkian carried his crusade for legal mercy killing to networks and newspapers around the country, he became a standard-bearer for all those who fail to see a moral difference between unplugging a respirator and plugging in a poison machine. He was quickly dubbed Dr. Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Dr. Death's Suicide | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...really expected Deputy Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas to be the bearer of good news when he appeared before the Lithuanian Supreme Council last Friday morning. But the report that he delivered still came as a shock. Standing beneath a huge yellow-green-and-red national flag, the burly leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party offered a gloom-and-doom scenario of what lay ahead for the breakaway Baltic republic in the aftermath of President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to cut back drastically on oil and gas shipments. "Understand me correctly," said Brazauskas, leaning on the blond wood lectern. "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Running Out Of Gas? | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein have at each other. Among Florida's Democrats, former Senator Lawton Chiles has just heard "voices" that told him to jump into the primary at the last minute, wrecking the carefully built two-year campaign of Congressman Bill Nelson to be the standard-bearer against Republican Governor Bob Martinez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunbelt Mud Slides | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader of a vanishing state, standard bearer of a vanishing party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Germanys Modrow's Last Hours in Power | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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