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...economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations, "is the most severe one-bullet strategy to beat inflation attempted anywhere in the world...
...nearby neighborhood of Oldpark, went to New Lodge that night looking for excitement. He never came back. Sometime around 1 a.m., he and a friend were walking down a street in New Lodge, headed for the epicenter of the riot. He was hit in the chest by a plastic bullet, crumpled to the ground, blood oozing from his mouth, and died before he reached the hospital...
...years later by military strongman Abdul Karim Kassem. When the Baathists fared no better under the new regime, Saddam was tapped by the party in 1959 to assassinate Kassem. That attempt also failed, but Saddam emerged a hero as stories circulated of how he had a companion dig a bullet from his leg with a penknife, then to Syria disguised as a Bedouin...
...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco set some new, supersophisticated computers to simulating the effects of nuclear blasts. One unexpected conclusion: the chemical explosives in a W-79 artillery shell could be detonated if the shell were struck in a single sensitive spot, perhaps by a stray bullet. One military official told the Washington Post, "For a while, we were also worried that these things might go off if they fell off the back of a truck." More than 300 of the shells were reportedly shipped to the U.S. from West Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea, where they...
LAST EXITS IN ROMANIA. The grainy videotape of last December's trial and execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife never shows the couple actually being cut down by bullets. This gap is now suspected of hiding a grisly interlude. Quoting government sources in Bucharest, a French newspaper claims that Ceausescu was tortured to death following the tribunal, by Romanian soldiers who were trying to locate three briefcases containing numbers and access codes of the family's foreign bank accounts. After studying the photographic evidence, forensic experts at France's Carme Institute tentatively confirm this scenario. They note...