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Even if Yeltsin and Gorbachev learn to work well together, they confront enormous tasks. The problems that preceded the coup -- economic decline, government deadlock, systemic decay -- are still there. At the top of the agenda is the immediate need to purge the current leadership of coup plotters, accomplices and sympathizers. It was clear last week that the country has no patience for continuing any of these men in office, yet there is a need for expertise and experience for the rebuilding that must get under way. But it is all happening faster and more roughly than many can handle...
...mystery-by-installment plan can, however, record almost journalistically a sequence of social change. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo reflected, in their Martin Beck series, the decay of the socialist dream in Sweden; Joseph Hansen provided a time line on gay life in the U.S. in his Dave Brandstetter series. No current mystery writer has better exploited this potential -- or better served readers with riveting storytelling and acutely observed human nature -- than James McClure in his eight novels about two South African policemen. The cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced...
...bleak is the Soviet economic situation, says U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, that it will be impossible "to insulate the military-industrial base from the overall decay. Clearly, there has to be an impact on the size and quality of their forces and on their ability to produce weapons systems...
...could blame Nolan Ryan for feeling the cold chill of his own mortality as he braced himself to start his 711th game in the majors? Sure, Ryan bestrode the baseball record book like a colossus, with more strikeouts and more no-hitters than any pitcher in history. But decay is an inevitable stage in the human condition. And Ryan was facing the powerful Toronto Blue Jays, whose youthful lineup included three players who had not even been born when the Texas Rangers' star broke into the big leagues back...
Since such a shift did not occur, "we now see decay products of sulfur dioxide that move into acid rain" instead of direct sulfur dioxide pollution, Dockery said...