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...communist past and hope that the court will close out the chapter. In fact, what happened to the party remains something of a mystery. It controlled almost every aspect of life and counted more than 20 million members in its prime, yet seemed to vanish overnight after the failed coup. A year later, the legacy of communist rule has proved difficult to erase. Democrats may be in control of the tip of the pyramid of power, but the middle levels are still dominated by bureaucrats from the old nomenklatura, who may have taken down their portraits of Lenin...
...Moscow last week is different. This time the Communist Party is in the dock, as Russians struggle to come to terms with seven decades of history. At issue is whether President Boris Yeltsin acted legally when he banned the party and seized its assets after last year's failed coup attempt. But the political stakes are higher. The trial will consider the high crimes and misdemeanors attributed to the party and perhaps outlaw, once and for all, the kind of totalitarian system it created...
...from Bibi and Harriet Andersson to Liv Ullmann and Lena Olin. Even after retiring as a film director, Bergman was still an ace casting director. This time he insisted that Ostergren, who played the maid in Fanny and Alexander, be cast as Anna. It is the film's great coup. She is not exactly beautiful, but her conviction and radiance carry the story's emotional burden: that such a woman could love such a man. The strength of her love is an almost mystical mystery that Bergman dare not explain, or even understand, but is pleased to present...
...year-old Algerian head of state. Boudiaf may have thought he was merely making a philosophical point in his address to a crowd at a cultural center in the Mediterranean port city of Annaba. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and grenades...
Though the government was reticent, the Algerian media reported that the killer was a member of the security service who acted out of "religious conviction." Suspicion fell naturally on the religious fundamentalists of the Islamic Salvation Front, whose electoral victory last January was aborted by a military coup. The Front was banned, and 10,000 suspected fundamentalists were arrested. Since then, militant Muslims have killed as many as 100 soldiers and police officers...