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MOSCOW: Desperate to show that Russia stands behind the wobbly Mir, the Kremlin has at last hit on a sure-fire PR coup: They're blasting Boris Yeltsin's trusty military advisor into space. Yuri Baturin, secretary of the Defense Council and high-profile cheerleader for the country's troubled space program, will make the trip to Mir some time next year for a stay of unspecified duration. And, by all accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone...
...fall of the Berlin Wall, got none of the breaks of his predecessor. Erich Honecker, the quintessential hardliner who ruled East Germany for 18 years, was judged too ill to stand trial, went into dignified exile in Chile, and died there in 1994. Spymaster Markus Wolf scored a similar coup, convincing a constitutional court to overturn a treason conviction and leave him free to pen a best-selling memoir. Until today's conviction, responsibility for the killings had fallen to border guards and military officials...
...time is now; the turf is the Web; and the enemy is Netscape, whose browser market share still dwarfs Microsoft's. The Apple deal makes Microsoft's Internet Explorer the default browser for all future Macs, yet another coup for Gates, who is painfully aware what a threat the Web poses to the OS standards whose implacable rigidity led to Microsoft's rise in the first place. Gates spent the Web's first two years pretending it didn't matter and the next two frantically refocusing his company on the Net and snapping up anything that might further that goal...
...Diego premiere, finding particular delight in the scene where a man gets his head inadvertently blown off in the back of a car. It is thus a minor enigma, one of the many Cunanan has left behind, whether his final, apparently desperate act was also an attempted coup de theatre, in which the fugitive of a thousand faces--seen everywhere and nowhere--tries to destroy the only one he has left in order to remain forever masked in mystery...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: In what may require the biggest leap of faith so far this year, Cambodian leader Hun Sen is asking members of parliament who fled his bloody coup to return and endorse his choice for a new co-prime minister. The offer comes just weeks after Hun Sen took power from former co-prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a bloody action in which 40 of Ranariddh's supporters were killed in custody, according to the U.N. Human Rights Center. For Hun Sen, the push is a move to legitimize his government in the face of his violent...