Word: blocs
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DIED. TODOR ZHIVKOV, 86, Bulgarian communist leader whose 35 years in office, the longest of any East bloc ruler, resulted largely from his acquiescence to Moscow; in Sofia. Zhivkov was ousted in a bloodless 1989 coup condoned by Gorbachev, but left the nation with a $10 billion foreign debt...
...drug scandal may have been an embarrassment to France, but nobody who reads the sports pages could have been terribly surprised. Performance-boosting drugs, once considered the specialty of shady East-bloc coaches, are becoming as common as Gatorade. Even as the Tour de France was sputtering along last week, two U.S. athletes, Olympic gold-medal shotputter Randy Barnes and sprinter Dennis Mitchell, were suspended by the International Amateur Athletic Federation on suspicion of "doping...
DIED. AGOSTINO CARDINAL CASAROLI, 83, a tailor's son who became the Vatican's unflappable envoy to Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s; in Rome. Upon his election as Pope, John Paul II quickly named the omnicompetent prelate the Vatican's chief diplomat, a post he filled with skill and judgment from 1979 to 1990. In 1989, in perhaps his most dramatic moment, Casaroli helped broker the meeting between the Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Houston is just the town to do it in. "Texas is the perfect place for a push like this. Hispanics have become a formidable voting bloc," says Branegan. Plus -- and of course this will sound cynical -- Houston is the hometown of one Governor George W. Bush, the front-runner to take on Al Gore...
...groups who often foreshadow Oscars, and Robin Williams of Good Will Hunting, who has lost three times and now finds himself with a serious, broadly-appealing vehicle to recommend him. Edge to Robin Williams, who won from the Screen Actors Guild--the Actors Branch comprises by far the largest bloc in the voting Academy...