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...ties to any beer barons. Interviewing several of Beck's relatives and colleagues, Journal reporter Bryan Burrough discovered that Mad Dog had invented much of his past. During Beck's supposed Viet Nam service he was actually attending Florida State University. One woman who dated Beck after the breakup of his second marriage said the banker "would wake up in cold sweats, shaking," saying he'd been dreaming about Viet Nam. "The guy lied in his sleep," she said...
...around the country began meeting last weekend in Belgrade to discuss and possibly approve the creation of a multiparty system for April elections and an end to the Communist monopoly on power. Opponents of the plan predicted it would produce parties that would foster local nationalism and trigger the breakup of the nation. Jelena Milojevic, head of the Yugoslav Socialist Alliance, vowed that Communist youth organizations would oppose "chauvinistic and separatist groups." Said she, in a statement that could apply to much of the region: "Self-proclaimed leaders blinded by hatred are appearing from the darkness of the past...
...picture while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, and was struck by its similarity to his proposal. Murphy, who received screen credit as the creator of the story, testified in a written deposition last month that he conceived the idea for the film in the wake of a painful romantic breakup. But Judge Harvey Schneider ruled that the parallels were substantial and that Paramount and Murphy had known about Buchwald's original story, although he stressed that his verdict was in no way meant to "disparage the creative talent" of Murphy...
Soviet officials have given a virtual guarantee they will not use force to keep Lithuania and its 3.7 million residents in the Soviet Union. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gennady I. Gerasimov told the BBC last week the Kremlin has "only one tool" for preventing a breakup of the union...
...present Communist Party and state leadership will not permit the breakup of the federal state." With that harsh comment on the Lithuanian party's decision to break with Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev laid down the limit on Soviet political reform. After months of acquiescence while communist parties across Eastern Europe went their own way, Gorbachev made it clear that a similar move by any of the 15 republics of the U.S.S.R. would be considered "illegitimate." No group had yet dared to defy Moscow in this way, and Gorbachev let his anger show. "If we cross this line," he declared...