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...massacre, and his indictment is every bit as damning as Karadzic's. Still, the Karadzic arrest has set a new tone in Belgrade. Says Natasa Kandic, a human-rights activist who has spent many years researching war crimes in former Yugoslavia: "This is a breakthrough moment for Serbia...
...willingness to fund it fully. But the Pentagon sees the Trident II as a crucial component of the U.S. arsenal for the 1990s because, like its predecessors, its submarine basing makes it invulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack (assuming, of course, that the Soviets do not achieve a breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare). But the stickiest and most controversial part of the trade-off would be the limits the Soviets would demand on SDI. Here their position has been evolving. A year ago they wanted to ban not only development and testing but also research on ''space-strike arms...
...your- heels abandon, Goodman's group was as highly disciplined as Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony. The eight- and 16-bar call-and-response choruses, sung out lustily by the saxophones, trumpets and trombones, supported wild improvisational flights by Goodman, Trumpeter Harry James and Drummer Krupa. The big breakthrough came at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. ''I called out some of our big Fletcher Henderson arrangements,'' remembered Goodman, ''and the boys seemed to get the idea.'' The crowd stopped dancing and rushed the bandstand. The swing era had begun, and Benny, then and thereafter, was its king...
...Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a British band dedicated to new-wave rock music and what the group's bassist, Tony James, calls designer violence. The group is about to make a major breakthrough: its first LP, Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It, will be released in July in Britain--complete with commercials. The record has the ambiguous distinction of being the first to hawk wares between the cuts. Eight to ten 20- to 30-second tracks on the EMI record will extol such salables as cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will...
...myriad emotions Britons Kate and Gerry McCann have experienced since the disappearance 14 months ago of their daughter Madeleine, add a tinge of relief: not at any breakthrough in the mystery over what happened to the toddler - who vanished nine days before her fourth birthday while vacationing with her parents in Portugal - but to news, instead, that they're no longer suspected of involvement in her disappearance...