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More fireworks are expected to erupt on Capitol Hill this week as a Senate subcommittee hears evidence in the B.C.C.I. scandal. Witnesses ranging from CIA and State Department officials to Georgia businessman Bert Lance and a former top B.C.C.I. executive will drop one bombshell after another, say staff members on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The most explosive testimony will focus on which heads of state took bribes from the bank, as well as on the role of Washington attorney Clark Clifford and what he knew about his Washington bank's connections to B.C.C.I. Clifford...
...Staraya Ploshchad, strollers stare in wonder at the blank windows and locked doors of the vast gray building that is the headquarters of the vanishing Soviet Communist Party. Laughter and cheers erupt as a 5-year-old boy, encouraged by his father, urinates on the wall. A graffitist has scrawled DOSHLI (We've come this far) -- the slogan of Soviet soldiers fighting to victory over Germany in World...
...fragile cease-fire between the secessionist republic of Slovenia and the Yugoslav government held last week. Both are publicly committed to a three-month cooling-off period, yet the agreement has done little to quell tensions in independence-minded Croatia, where conflict between Croatians and Serbs threatens to erupt in warfare...
...They erupt like indignant metal jungle birds, and they whoop all night. They make American cities sound like lunatic rain forests, all the wildlife affrighted, violated, outraged, shrieking...
...Right Thing had critics predicting that the film would foment wildings by blacks against whites. Racial violence did erupt in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood that summer, but the victim was a black man, Yusuf Hawkins, whose murder inspired Jungle Fever. "He was killed for supposedly coming to visit ((a young Italian-American woman))," Lee notes, "when all he wanted to do was look at a used car. But sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white Southern...