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Keeping Lebed as an independent candidate was considered especially critical--unless he dropped out of the first round in favor of Yeltsin, which seemed highly unlikely. "All the data suggested that if Lebed withdrew to join a third-force coalition, his supporters would defect to Zyuganov," says Gorton. Thus on May 5, the Americans wrote that "Lebed would be the strongest third-force threat, and we believe paying a significant price for his support would be well worth it." The Americans didn't know that other Yeltsin aides were already reportedly aiding Lebed financially and logistically. "All we did advise...
FIDEL CASTRO Loses two Olympic boxing favorites after they skip training and defect...
...even over Cuba, the gold-medal winner in Barcelona. For one thing, coach Skip Bertman's squad is largely intact from the team that beat Cuba in four straight exhibitions last year. For another, Cuba seems to have chosen players less for their ability than for their likelihood to defect. The U.S. stars could be starter Kris Benson and outfielder Mark Kotsay...
That lesson has been drummed into Moceanu by her parents. While still sweethearts in Romania, Dimitry and Camelia Moceanu resolved to defect to the West. In 1980 Dimitry secured a tourist visa and fled to Austria, leaving behind a secure job as a manager of Romania's duty-free shops. When Camelia followed eight months later, they reunited in Greece, staying long enough to marry and conceive Dominique, then crossed the Atlantic. Over the next 10 years, Dimitry's assorted jobs took the family from California to Illinois to Florida...
...messages today: the message that science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice; that the Federal government, much maligned in current politics, can be a powerful force for public benefit; that the government can work productively with universities, where the cellular defect in cystinosis was studied, and with industries, where the new drug was manufactured; and finally, that progress in medical science occurs at a pace that may seem slow at the time to desperate parents, but astoundingly rapid in retrospect. Just consider: in the space of a generation, this lethal disease...