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...noticing that the Iraqi leader was blinking at a frantic pace (as often as 40 times a minute, vs. 20 to 25 during a TV interview last June). John Molloy, a consultant who trains salespeople to handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says Molloy. "The guy looks like he's falling apart." While medical researchers are split over the significance of rapid blinking, battlefield commanders confirm that the symptom is common among soldiers who have endured heavy bombardment...
Right-wing critics blame Gorbachev for the breakdown in authority and insist that the government restore order. But in a society ruled by totalitarian dictate for centuries, instilling respect for law and faith in the government's fair enforcement of it will take time. Gorbachev has spent five years promoting his vision of a Soviet Union governed by law. Using the army and KGB to crack down on crime may solve the immediate problem, but it will not bring the future he promises any closer...
...general concern is that Operation Desert Storm is a really unfortunate example of an inability to use diplomacy in an effective manner," he said. "Personally I believe that everybody wants peace. It suggests to me a real breakdown in leadership down the board...
...before. The economic reform drew outraged protests from Lithuania's Russians. Prunskiene, , a moderate widely admired for her ability to cool tensions with Moscow, also came under fire from ardent Lithuanian nationalists who consider her too soft on the Kremlin. The result, as liberals saw it, was a breakdown of authority tailor-made for Moscow to exploit...
...depends on how quickly we can overhaul our entire financial system and bring some law-and-order to what has been a law of the jungle. The nation is repeating the mistakes of 1900 to 1929, when we stumbled through a crisis by never addressing the root cause: the breakdown of the regulatory systems. We must reform the apparatus, which is a mishmash of overlapping agencies...