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This was the doomsday scenario friends of the peace process had long imagined, anticipated, dreaded. All it would take was one crazy extremist from either side to open fire on an opposing crowd, and the Israeli-P.L.O. accords would fall apart...
...doomsday predictions he inspires, Chernomyrdin has both his rhetoric and behavior to thank. Since taking office in December 1992, he has dismissed the "improvisations" of free-enterprise thinkers like Yegor Gaidar as "poorly thought-out experiments," taken a verbal slap at "market romanticism" and disparaged privatization by comparing it to Stalin's forced collectivization, which killed more than 10 million peasants during the 1930s. As for the Prime Minister's policy initiatives, International Monetary Fund officials weighing whether to unlock $1.5 billion in aid to Russia are most disturbed by his willingness to pump increasingly worthless rubles into inefficient state...
...control will this epidemic of pranks spiral? How many must die, or at least get really annoyed, before University Hall steps in? Pranks have been taken out of the hands of professionals and taken up by an unpredictable mob. Beware, Harvard, the minute hand on the Doomsday clock is ticking. Oh, yes, it is ticking...
...doomsday clock, stopped just before midnight as the cold war ended, is still ticking. Rand Corp. study for the U.S. Pentagon warns that the world will accumulate enough plutonium -- the radioactive ingredient used in many nuclear warheads -- to build 87,000 "primitive" bombs by 2003. Weapons dismantled by the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. will account for 199 tons of the lethal substance. Adding to the problem will be more than 300 tons of plutonium extracted from spent uranium fuel retrieved from nuclear power plants. "Separated plutonium held in inventory," says the report, "could be diverted and reworked to make...
Political magazines have presented this strategy as an insidious plot, a secret infiltration that Americans won't detect until it's too late. The doomsday articles only betray the media's unmistakable bias against the far right. Independent of ideology and policy goals, the grass-roots network is excellent politics...