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...weeks now Washington has expected the panel's report to be scathingly critical of the Administration. It seems unlikely, however, that the panel can go beyond an earlier Senate Intelligence Committee study in answering the central question: Was the Administration trading arms for hostages? (The Senate report indicated this was a major factor, despite Reagan's denials.) It is possible that the panel will be unable to prove who is right in those many cases in which Administration witnesses, notably Regan and McFarlane, have told contradictory stories. But it can and almost certainly will spotlight those conflicts in a manner...
...threat to the canal may be worsened by another consequence of deforestation. According to Donald Windsor of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the average annual rainfall in central Panama has decreased by as much as 10% since the turn of the century. "Because of deforestation," he says, "there is less evapotranspiration." And because less water rises into the air in vapor form, less returns in the form of rainfall...
Dinmukhamed Kunaev, 75, had ruled the republic's Communist Party for a quarter of a century until he was deposed and disgraced at a Dec. 16 plenum of the party Central Committee. His removal and the decision to replace him with an ethnic Russian from outside Kazakhstan, Gennadi Kolbin, party leader from Ulyanovsk province, set off the demonstrations the following day. According to officials in Alma-Ata, the demonstrators were angered not so much by Kunaev's dismissal as by the decision to replace him with an outsider, Russian or not. But the motives may have run deeper than that...
...Shanghai. Nonetheless, they were deeply troubling to a Kremlin regime that rules over a vast patchwork of nearly 100 nationalities, ranging from the European-minded Lithuanians to the Asian-oriented Kazakhs, who are of predominantly Muslim heritage. The Soviet Union is held together by a ramshackle, Russian-dominated central bureaucracy that is ever fearful that nationalist outbreaks could spread. Moscow was therefore quick to punish not only those who participated in the riots but the officials who failed to prevent them...
Ordinary Alma-Atans were pleased with the change. Soviet officials might take pause, however, to consider why they were pleased. One young man at the city's central market, marveling at the newfound abundance, quipped that maybe they should have a demonstration every year...