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...time, the Soviet press explicitly pinned the blame for the country's economic trouble on former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. In fact, the rioting in Kazakhstan was largely a result of Gorbachev's efforts to get rid of a Brezhnev crony, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, a Politburo member and local party chieftain who was noted for championing local autonomy against Moscow. Gorbachev replaced Kunaev with an ethnic Russian, a move widely interpreted as part of a drive to consolidate Moscow's control. Another Politburo member whose job is said to be in jeopardy is Vladimir Shcherbitsky, party chief in the Ukraine...
...centuries Iceland has been far from the vortex of global affairs. Even the story of its founding illustrates its distance from the rest of the world. In 874, so the legend goes, the Viking chieftain Ingolfur Arnarson tossed some wooden pillars out to sea, vowing to settle the land wherever they washed up. They apparently came to rest in a western bay of Iceland, where Arnarson soon established the small fishing village of Reykjavik (meaning Bay of Smoke, after the numerous geothermal springs that supply the city's heating and keep its streets ice-free in winter...
This week's cover portrait of Mafia Chieftain John Gotti is Artist Andy Warhol's fifth TIME cover since illustrating "Today's Teen-Agers" in 1965. The others: the Fonda family (1970), Michael Jackson (1984) and Lee Iacocca (1985). Like all TIME cover art, the Gotti print will be donated to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. The final selection was chosen from 30 different versions prepared by the artist, who tempered his affinity for vivid hues. "The colors Warhol used are rather somber and threatening," says Executive Art Director Nigel Holmes. "Unlike with Michael Jackson...
...woman who insists that she has lived several times before, one journalese speaker came up with this deft line: "More than most people on this earth, she has found spiritual answers." In crime journalese, the top thug in any urban area is always referred to as a "reputed Mafia chieftain" and generally depicted as an untutored but charismatic leader of a successful business operation. The chieftain's apprentice thugs are his "associates." This sort of coverage reflects the automatic respect and dignity accorded crime figures who know where reporters live and recognize the understandable desire of journalists everywhere to keep...
...president is not Dr. Goldberger but "Murph" to faculty and students alike. Professors lecture in jeans and open-collared shirts, shorts and sandals. They encourage questions and expect challenges. Gray has been known to wear a horse's head while lecturing. Feynman, who played a bongo-banging tribal chieftain in a student production of South Pacific, mixes serious physics with stand-up comedy. And Murph marked the centennial of Einstein's birth by donning pith helmet and chaps and riding an elephant across campus...