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MOSCOW--The commonwealth navy charged yesterday that a nuclear-powered U.S. submarine was secretly in Russian waters when it collided with a Soviet sub last week. U.S. officials said the crash occurred in international waters...
Cambridge has the third highest number of AIDS cases in the Commonwealth, behind Boston and Springfield. Roughly half of the people treated for AIDS or HIV at the Cambridge Hospital have been infected by IV drug use, Epstein said. Epstein stressed that the key to the program is that it is "an entree for help for substance abuse...
...countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have tougher problems. Faced with a collapsing economy, rising crime and open fighting among its members, the new Commonwealth of Independent States has pushed environmental issues far down on its list of priorities. The Russian people show no special interest in the ozone problem. Whatever aerosol cans and foam products make it to market in Moscow these days are immediately snapped up by buyers who either do not know about CFCs or do not particularly care...
...favorable sense: he has lost none of his sure instinct for gauging the force and direction of the tides of power in world affairs. For example, writing immediately after the failed Moscow putsch of last August, he predicts with remarkable prescience that the Soviet Union will dissolve into a "commonwealth of free and equal nations" that "will coordinate, not govern, the actions of republics." Consequently, his advice on foreign policy is well worth the attention even of those who still gag on hearing his name...
Although the Administration considers these agreements to be ironclad, Presidents of the Commonwealth of Independent States have been jockeying for power since the formation of that body, and the lingering fear of Russian dominance may yet make the nuclear card a hard one for other republics to discard...