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...RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO HOLD TOGETHER, ITS SPACE PROGRAM is falling apart. At the BAIKONUR COSMODROME in Kazakhstan -- the Russian equivalent of the Kennedy Space Center -- civilian workers have been looting equipment, crippling the facility's launch pad in the process. The Russian space program is also involved in a feud with the new Ukrainian state, which has its own space program. A Russian meteorological satellite was turned off in orbit, so Ukraine couldn't recover weather data from it. Some of the stolen Baikonur equipment has mysteriously resurfaced in Ukraine. Understandably, the disarray of Russia's once great space program...
...eventual health-care reform program -- and even those "sin taxes" would not come anywhere near offsetting the costs of making health-insurance coverage universal. On a happier, though still controversial, note, Clinton unveiled a program to invest $17 billion of federal money over the next five years in civilian high- tech projects. Much of the cash would be diverted from military applications to development of such efforts as a car running on "clean" fuel and an "information superhighway" linking computers...
Dissident Kim Young Sam, 65, marked his inauguration as South Korea's first civilian President in 31 years by blaming his predecessors for the country's woes. With outgoing President Roh Tae Woo and former military dictator Chun Doo Hwan standing behind him, Kim told a shivering crowd of 30,000 that "misconduct and corruption are the most terrifying enemies attacking the foundations of our society." The Democratic Party of his onetime ally Kim Dae Jung boycotted the ceremonies because the victor refused to apologize for personal attacks in last year's campaign...
Consul-General Ahn Jong-Koo of Boston's South Korean Consulate and Edward Baker, the associate director of the Harvard Yenching Institute, said they both hoped that the election of Kim Young Sam, South Korea's first democratically elected civilian president in 42 years, would usher in a period of reform...
...whose life as the nation's top civilian intelligence analyst has taken on the dimensions of a Tom Clancy mystery--seems to be loving every minute...