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...also said that negotiations with reggae musician Ziggy Marley were proceeding smoothly and that Marley would soon be pressed to confirm his final concert dates. Marley has said he will perform at Harvard either in April or May of this spring...
...Mikhail Gorbachev posed for photographs with Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello in the Kremlin last week, a Brazilian journalist called out the question on everyone's mind. Would Gorbachev confirm the report broadcast around the globe by CNN that he was planning to quit as Communist Party chief? Gorbachev listened to the translation with a puzzled look, then smiled. "Many rumors and suppositions are circulating worldwide," he said, gesticulating with his hands for emphasis. "All this is groundless. It has come into vogue in the international press to set rumor mills working as soon as we approach...
After Hurst's report was aired, other news organizations scrambled to confirm it but came up empty. None of the three major wire services -- A.P., U.P.I. and Reuters -- reported the rumor until the worldwide reaction became a story in its own right. All three networks gave the resignation story prominent play at the beginning of their evening news-casts on Tuesday. The following day's New York Times and Washington Post downplayed the rumor by encasing it in stories on the political and financial reactions...
...wrought in Azerbaijan and the rest of the country. The head of the Azerbaijani Communist Party was dismissed for "serious mistakes" and replaced by the republic's premier, Ayaz Mutalibov, but the move cannot redeem the prestige of a party now identified with the military occupation. Yazov seemed to confirm last week that Gorbachev intervened not to save Armenian lives but to prevent the Popular Front from taking control of Azerbaijan. "The army's actions," he said, "are directed at destroying the organizational structure of the Popular Front leaders who are keen on seizing power...
...northern Yugoslav republic of Slovenia, fearful of rising Serbian hegemony, voted in September to confirm its right to secede. By banning a rally of Serbs in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana last month, the province's Communist leader, Milan Kucan, has become a local hero. Communist Party officials from around the country began meeting last weekend in Belgrade to discuss and possibly approve the creation of a multiparty system for April elections and an end to the Communist monopoly on power. Opponents of the plan predicted it would produce parties that would foster local nationalism and trigger the breakup...